Approval as a rescue association or organisation
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Any association or rescue organisation wishing to carry out civil protection activities must be approved.
Approval is granted by the Minister in charge of the rescue services. The Minister is responsible for monitoring and checking the compliance of the activities of the approved association or organisation.
Approval does not exempt your association or organisation from obtaining other accreditations or authorisations issued by other authorities.
Who is concerned
Any rescue association or organisation:
- whose main purpose is civil protection; and
- that have their registered office in a Member State of the European Union (EU);
may apply for approval.
How to proceed
Submitting the application
You must contact the General Department of Civil Security of the Ministry of Home Affairs by email (direction.secours@mai.etat.lu) and inform them that you wish to submit an application for approval of your association or organisation.
The General Department of Civil Security will then send you a link to an electronic document exchange platform.
You must then fill in the form and add all the requested supporting documents. After that you can submit your complete application file via the electronic document exchange platform.
Submissions on paper only are not accepted.
Form
On the form, you must state:
- the contact details of your organisation or association and those of its representative;
- the ability to conduct civil security activities at national or international level;
- that you have the appropriate means to engage in the type of missions requested;
- the effective staff available for the exercise of civil security activities;
- the qualifications of the effective staff;
- the existence of a permanent team of operational managers;
- the existence of an alert management system for your members as well as an individual identification system.
Supporting documents
You must enclose with your application:
- an up-to-date version of your articles of association;
- an extract from the Trade and Companies Register;
- a descriptive report on your members' alert management system of as well as the individual identification system.
Incomplete applications will not be processed.
Decision
The Minister will respond within 3 months of receipt of the complete application.
The approval takes the form of a ministerial order which indicates:
- the approval number; and
- its duration of validity.
Obligations
The approval:
- cannot be transferred;
- must be posted at your organisation's head office.
The approval number must appear on all correspondence with users or the general public.
As an approved organisation or association, you undertake to ensure:
- your ability to carry out civil protection activities at national or international level, as indicated on the form;
- that each member of your staff is physically and mentally fit to carry out these civil protection activities;
- a permanent team of operational managers is available;
- that an alert management system for your members and an individual identification system are in place.
In the event of failure to comply with these obligations, the Minister may suspend or revoke the approval.
You must inform the Minister without delay of any changes to the information provided when you submitted your initial application for approval or your application for renewal.
Validity
The approval is valid for 5 years and is renewable.
Renewal
You must submit a renewal application to the Minister:
- 6 months before the expiry date of the current approval;
- via the application form and proceed in the same way as for the initial application.
Online services and forms
Who to contact
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Ministry of Home Affairs General Department of Civil Security
- Address:
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19, rue Beaumont
L-1219
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
B.P. 10, L-2010 Luxembourg
- Phone:
- (+352) 24 78 46 00
- Email address:
- direction.secours@mai.etat.lu
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Corps grand-ducal d’incendie et de secours (CGDIS)
- Address:
- 3, boulevard de Kockelscheuer L-1821 Luxembourg Luxembourg
- Phone:
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(+352) 49 77 12 332
Volunteer Department
- Email address:
- administratif@cgdis.lu
- Website:
- https://112.public.lu/fr.html
Related procedures and links
Procedures
Links
Further information
sur le Portail 112 des secours du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Legal references
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Loi modifiée du 27 mars 2018
portant organisation de la sécurité civile et création d’un Corps grand-ducal d’incendie et de secours
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Règlement grand-ducal du 13 juillet 2018
sur les associations et organismes agréé(e)s de secours
