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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | Radio/TV broadcast | Other | |||
| Luxembourg | N/A | Cell Broadcast | |||
| Lithuania | Public Warning Sirens | Other | lt72.lt | ||
| Lithuania | SMS | Cell Broadcast | e-seimas.lrs.lt | ||
| Liechtenstein | Website "Alert Swiss" | Other | alert.swiss | Liechtenstein is integrated into the swiss platform. Available in German, English, French, Italian | |
| 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 | |||
| Croatia | mobile handsets | Cell Broadcast | |||
| France | Cell Broadcast | ||||
| Iceland | SMS pushed to all phones connected to cells in the vicinity of an event. | Cell Broadcast | |||
| Finland | Public Warning Sirens | Other | |||
| Spain | Warning notifications in a timely manner to mobile subscribers | Cell Broadcast | contrataciondelestado.es | Link 2 | |
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| Malta | Mobile | Cell Broadcast | |||
| Slovakia | Civil defence warning signals sent out through sirens | Other | minv.sk | ||
| Slovenia | PW with sirens | Other | |||
| Country | Means of Access | Type of PWS | Link to PWS description | Link to PWS download | Additional Information |