This is particularly significant when faced with a disaster, or several disasters, with wide-ranging impacts which overwhelm the capacities of a critical number of Member States at the same time and which may paralyse mutual assistance amongst them.
To je zlasti pomembno pri spopadanju z nesrečo ali več nesrečami z daljnosežnimi posledicami, ki hkrati presegajo zmogljivosti kritičnega števila držav članic in ki lahko onemogočijo medsebojno pomoč med njimi.