Everything described on how it works works without an act. The act is what makes it binding, and what keeps it in place when the people who introduced it have moved on. It creates no new task. It describes how the tasks that already exist are prepared, decided, carried out and documented. For those who take their statutory duties seriously it is also a protection: whoever works this way can show, years later, what a decision rested on, what was examined, and what was deliberately left open.
Part 1 applies to every public process. Part 2 adds what holds for safety and hazard prevention. The annexes carry what a text of this kind cannot: the hazard catalogue, the procedural rules, the sources, and two templates ready for use.
part 1 – general provisions
| § | what it settles |
| 1 purpose and scope | applies at every level and to any territory, whatever its size; three non-substitutable goals — safety, bioregional sustainability, common good |
| 2 definitions | every term the act relies on, from baseline 0 to intervention deficit |
| 3 core principles | holistic consideration, named responsibility, proportionality, and the coordination duty for works in public space |
| 4 levels | by legal competence, not by population; the smallest authority with direct operational competence is the responsible one |
| 5 subsidiarity and funding | a gap triggers support, not blame; a duty transferred without funding is a gap of the transferring level |
| 6 the council | composition where several authorities decide together, qualified majorities, the reasoned veto, the citizens’ proposal |
| 7 staff offices and project teams | composition, operational autonomy, own capacity first, and the procedural rules |
| 8 stewardship action plans | when a full plan is required, what it contains, the responsibility matrix, implementation and enforcement |
| 9 decision integrity | proof before asking for means, named votes, and where responsibility sits once a gap is carried |
| 10 transparency and reporting | the incident reporting system, psychological safety, the annual report |
| 11 relation to sectoral planning | existing plans become action plans or are brought into line at their next revision |
| 12 evidence and decision | no recommendation from a data basis the plan itself calls incomplete; every figure marked and sourced |
part 2 — safety and hazard prevention
| § | what it settles |
| 13 safety as a design task | safety as a capacity, the five dimensions, and the rule against measures that destroy a place to secure it |
| 14 own responsibility | what remains with each person, and where public responsibility begins |
| 15 hazard assessment | the catalogue, the three relevance levels, vulnerability factors, and the three system states |
| 16 hierarchy, baseline and gap | the ranking of measures, capacity in three stages, baseline 0, the four levels of a gap |
| 17 the risk chain | intervention risk, intervention deficit, residual risk – and the rule against renaming one as the other |
| 18 intervention | the emergency services, their part in prevention, and the proposed designation |
| 19 the safety session | the annual review of hazards and the grouping that shapes the project teams |
| 20 ecological floor | what environmental criminal law puts beyond weighing, and what documentation is worth against third parties |
| 21 duty of preparedness | the duty, the annual check, no appeal to the unavoidable, and the incentives an authority can actually give |
annexes
- 1 hazard catalogue – the full catalogue every authority works through
- 2 procedural rules – how teams are formed, how meetings are run, how the matrix is kept
- 3 on the designation RESCUE Corps
- 4 risk studies and sources – what the assessment of developments rests on
- 5 model job description for a project team leader