Public Warning Systems

Information on Public Warning in EU countries

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

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Country	Means of Access	Type of PWS	Link to PWS description	Link to PWS download	Additional Information
Spain	Warning notifications in a timely manner to mobile subscribers	Cell Broadcast	interior.gob.es		Link 1
Denmark	Emergency notifications, TV, radio, social media accounts and sirens.	Other			The Cell Broadcast System will be functioning from 1st March 2023
Germany		Cell Broadcast
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
Bulgaria		Cell Broadcast			the system is under construction
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.
Malta	Mobile	Cell Broadcast
Iceland	SMS pushed to all phones connected to cells in the vicinity of an event.	Cell Broadcast
Slovakia	Civil defence warning signals sent out through sirens	Other	minv.sk
Slovenia	PW with sirens	Other
Slovenia	Web, Google Play Store, App Store	App	sos112.si		At the moment not available, following cyber attack.
Sweden		Location-based SMS	sosalarm.se
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
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.
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.
Netherlands	Automatic	Cell Broadcast	crisis.nl
Croatia	mobile handsets	Cell Broadcast
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.
Luxembourg	N/A	Cell Broadcast
Lithuania	Public Warning Sirens	Other	lt72.lt
Lithuania	SMS	Cell Broadcast	e-seimas.lrs.lt
Italy	Public	Cell Broadcast	it-alert.gov.it		IT-alert. The system uses the CAP (Common Alerting Protocol), in the Italian CAP-IT profile. The system can release the messages produced in an open format, always using other standard formats (json, rss), in order to be able in future to re-launch the IT-alert messages also on digital motorway billboards, control rooms, television but also on social networks. The system is currently in an experimental and testing phase and pilot region tests have been organized and are being organised.
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		Other			sirens, radio and TV stations
Croatia	mobile handsets	Location-based SMS
Country	Means of Access	Type of PWS	Link to PWS description	Link to PWS download	Additional Information