Welcome to the CEMAC - Crisis & Emergency Management Centre - website. CEMAC is a Belgian centre of expertise / excellence active in the field of emergency preparedness, crisis management and crisis communications, offering services to both government and to business and industry. The CEMAC website is currently under re-developement. We apologize for all the inconveniences that you might encounter. Continuity of Operations Message CEMAC offices will be closed: 02-dec-2004 until 17-dec-2004. 31-dec-2004 01-jan-2005 A limited on-call capability is available on the An Operational Support Unit (OSU) was activated during the Ghislengien gas incident (30 july 2004-12 august 2004) to assist in the coordination effort between the strikken company and the government bodies supervising the incident response and the recovery efforts. CAMHIE ®: development of atmospheric dispersion modelling software for the Belgian ministry of the interior Development of a civil defence COMAH safety report assessment methodology Emergency planning guide for educational facilities, in cooperation with the ministries of the interior and of public education; to be issued freely in fourth quarter of 2004. SEPP: development of a national standard for emergency and disaster plans Nokeos test bed: federal research project with FPC nv, Softcell nv and a steering group, aimed at developing a technology demonstrator for nation wide computer-assisted emergency management