The Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs is reviewing two State Auditor reports. The first examines whether civil actors can adequately support military needs during crisis and war, finding that the Justice and Public Security Ministry and Defence Ministry have failed to establish sufficient conditions for effective total defence despite policy commitments since 2016. The second report finds that the Trade, Fisheries and Food Safety Ministry lacks adequate oversight of ports critical to national security and has not secured them properly.
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The State Auditor recommends that the Justice and Public Security Ministry communicate more clearly to municipalities what is expected of their emergency preparedness for security crises and war, working with the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Management and state governors. It should ensure municipalities have access to relevant information for planning the upper end of the crisis spectrum, initiate more coordinated civil sector total defence development to improve regional and local preparedness conditions, and take steps to improve visibility of resources and dependencies at national, regional and local levels while ensuring effective prioritization of resources among total defence actors during security crises and war.
The State Auditor recommends that the Defence Ministry follow up to ensure the Armed Forces identify and communicate civil support needs to all relevant total defence actors in line with expectations in the new long-term plan, ensure the Armed Forces communicate property, building, facility and infrastructure needs during crisis and war to the Defence Real Estate Agency in cooperation with other relevant ministries, clarify how defence preparedness agreements are used and how any prioritization dilemmas between civil and military sectors will be handled during crisis and war, and ensure critical preparedness agreements do not expire without replacement solutions in place.
The State Auditor recommends that the Justice and Public Security Ministry and Defence Ministry, working with the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Management, state governors and the Armed Forces, ensure that civil support for military needs is exercised and evaluated more thoroughly at regional and local levels.
The State Auditor recommends that the Trade, Fisheries and Food Safety Ministry identify which ports are critical to national security, ensure plans exist for alternative supply lines if these ports are disabled, and continue mapping port value under security legislation.
The State Auditor recommends that the Trade, Fisheries and Food Safety Ministry ensure cybersecurity is addressed in port security work, ensure changes in the threat picture are quickly incorporated into port security measures, and consider whether risk assessments and security measures under maritime security regulations and security legislation can be treated together where a port is subject to both regimes.