Consequence Management Exercise "Lazio 2006"

Rome, 23-26 October 2006

NATO-Russia to practise anti-terrorist response

Consequence Management Exercise “Lazio 2006? was the third in a series of Civil Emergency Planning (CEP) Exercises conducted under the responsibility of the Ad-Hoc Group on Civil Emergencies under the auspices of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC).

The exercise was held from 23 to 26 October 2006, in and around Rome, and consisted of two distinct parts, a Field Exercise at the “Operative Training Centre” of the Italian Fire Brigade in Montelibretti, and a Table Top exercise at the Senior Fire-Fighters Institute in Rome.

Like the two previous NRC/CEP Exercises “Bogorodsk 2002” and “Kaliningrad 2004”, the scenario for the exercise was based upon a terrorist attack with a “Weapon of Mass Destruction”. While exercise “Bogorodsk 2002? focused on a terrorist attack with a chemical agent, and “Kaliningrad 2004?