Public Warning Systems
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A single Union-wide database of Public Warning Systems has been established by virtue of the Roaming Regulation. This database intends to help roaming end-users in each Member State to be informed of all the Public Warning Systems (if applicable) deployed in the Union.
Data was last updated on: 26/07/2023
| Country | Means of Access | Type of PWS | Link to PWS description | Link to PWS download | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania | SMS | Cell Broadcast | e-seimas.lrs.lt | ||
| Malta | Mobile | Cell Broadcast | |||
| Netherlands | Automatic | Cell Broadcast | crisis.nl | ||
| Romania | RO-ALERT system allows sending Cell Broadcast messages to warn and alert citizens in case of emergency, according to the legal provisions. | Cell Broadcast | ro-alert.ro | ||
| Iceland | SMS pushed to all phones connected to cells in the vicinity of an event. | Cell Broadcast | |||
| Belgium | Location-based SMS | ibz.be | inscription is automatic as soon as a user (mobile phone) is active on the national territory, user will receive warning messages if location is within a defined area. | ||
| Hungary | SMS | Location-based SMS | Legislation (only in Hungarian language): https://njt.hu/eli/UT/2020/BM/16. Location based PWS SMS will be sent from the following numbers depending on the visited network: 1840 (short number), or +36705511200. | ||
| Croatia | mobile handsets | Location-based SMS | |||
| Belgium | Location-based SMS | be-alert.be | inscription is automatic as soon as a user (mobile phone) is active on the national territory, user will receive warning messages if location is within a defined area. | ||
| Poland | Text messages (Alert RCB) sends information about the threat to mobile networks operators, who immediately forward it to their subscribers. Anyone who has a mobile phone switched on, if present within the emergency messaging area (the "danger zone"), will receive a short text message (SMS) informing about the type of threat. | Location-based SMS | www.gov.pl | Alert RCB – SMS warning system, available for citizens in case of local threats. | |
| Czechia | This emergency service is accessible to every person with a mobile device present in the targeted location at the time of broadcast. Neither application download nor user registration of any kind is required. | Location-based SMS | |||
| Portugal | N/A | Location-based SMS | SMS warning system, available for citizens in case of local threats. Sent by the operators to their customers/roamers (in) in case of the emergency situation. | ||
| Sweden | Location-based SMS | sosalarm.se | |||
| Liechtenstein | Website "Alert Swiss" | Other | alert.swiss | Liechtenstein is integrated into the swiss platform. Available in German, English, French, Italian | |
| Belgium | Other | be-alert.be | be-alert.be | website available in dutch, french, german and english, a user can register his phone and email to receive targeted messages additional to messages of Location-based SMS system. | |
| Denmark | Emergency notifications, TV, radio, social media accounts and sirens. | Other | The Cell Broadcast System will be functioning from 1st March 2023 | ||
| Finland | Public Warning Sirens | Other | |||
| Finland | Radio/TV broadcast | Other | |||
| Croatia | Other | sirens, radio and TV stations | |||
| Lithuania | Public Warning Sirens | Other | lt72.lt | ||
| Latvia | Messaging | Other | SMS as a part of Public Warning in the case of the emergency situation. SMS (text provided by the services involved in solving of emergency situtation) is sent by the operators to their customers/abonents in case of the emergency situation. | ||
| Slovenia | PW with sirens | Other | |||
| Slovakia | Civil defence warning signals sent out through sirens | Other | minv.sk | ||
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| Country | Means of Access | Type of PWS | Link to PWS description | Link to PWS download | Additional Information |