The EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement is a Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe, set up in 1987 by Resolution (87) 2[1] of the Committee of Ministers. Its full name is "Co-operation Group for the Prevention of, Protection Against, and Organisation of Relief in Major Natural and Technological Disasters (EUR-OPA)".
Its aims are to develop disaster prediction research, risk management, post-crisis analysis and rehabilitation.
The Agreement supports the development of specialised scientific and technical centres on both sides of the Mediterranean.[2] Many of the research activities are organised through a network of these centres.
It also includes a European Alert System,[3] which is an earthquake disaster alert and rapid response system, run by the Strasbourg secretariat in cooperation with the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.