In the follow-up to a training session in February 2009, a project was designed that has provided Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with support to improve the knowledge of their public experts in the areas of safety reporting, and in particular on:

• The validation of the content of the safety reports;
• The methodologies applied in these reports, in particular for:
  
  • Selection of the possible major accident scenarios;
  • Calculation of probability for scenarios; and
  • Assessment of the extent and severity of the consequences (modelling of consequences).

The countries were also interested in learning from good practices in setting up an effective major accident prevention regime. For Croatia and Serbia this was especially important, because it would enable them to review the newly developed regulations and procedures vis-à-vis good practice.