combating violent, online, and property-related crime. Last but not least, we must consistently fight hate crime and stand up against verbal and physical manifestations of hatred, including attacks on democratic values, because hatred radicalizes, fragments, undermines, and destabilizes societies. 119. A functioning criminal justice system able to flexibly respond to changing security risks is another crucial enabler for internal security. The Government must keep tailoring the system’s capacity to the current needs, and it must protect judicial independence from any interference. Only an independent justice system, resilient to outside influences, can hand down just and fair rulings to promote confidence in the democratic rule of law and in a State that delivers security for its people. 123. We need to develop our civil protection system in a way reflecting the trends in the security environment, socio-economic influences, as well as our acceptance of the fact that unforeseen events may occur and that their impacts on our society may be profound. To this end, the Government facilitates organizational, material, and financial support measures to improve civil protection, including volunteerism. The Government promotes the development of our civil preparedness system since a population that takes a responsible approach and acts in the right way can do a lot to prevent emergencies and lessen the impacts. The Ministry of the Interior coordinates the integrated rescue system and develops the operational capability of all elements, including volunteer firefighters who are to get a greater role in emergency response and civil protection. 120. The Czech Republic will ensure that the bodies responsible for internal security have the human resources, organizational, material, and technological capacities they need to efficiently perform these functions and adequately prevent and deal with the security phenomena. 124. In crisis situations, the Government uses a system of emergency economic measures (coordinated by the State Material Reserves Administration) to facilitate supplies of the necessary material in cases where responsibility for supplying the material rests with bodies at any level of the crisis management system and the material cannot be obtained in a standard way. f. Civil protection and crisis management 125. Czechia builds the non-military elements of its defence capability, especially in the context of our commitment to meeting NATO’s baseline requirements for resilience of our State and society. We utilize and help develop the EU Civil Protection Mechanism for disaster prevention, preparedness, and response. This also involves having in place civil protection means and arrangements. Czechia has set out to improve its all-hazards response capability. 121. The Ministry of Interior’s responsibility is to make our State and society resilient to crises of non-military nature. This involves coordinating the nonmilitary crisis management system, and building the expertise needed to plan, prepare, coordinate and align the roles of public authorities and private stakeholders. Upcoming legislative changes will facilitate the development of the State’s single crisis management documentation reflecting the changed security environment. The Ministry of the Interior will continue to improve the crisis management tools, especially the national crisis management information system. 122. Resilient critical infrastructure provides essential support for the vital functions of the State. The Government will consider new developments relating to critical infrastructure protection in the light of EU legislation. It will review the criteria for determining which infrastructures are critical and expand the rights and duties of State bodies and other critical infrastructure actors. The Government will initiate a legislative change to consolidate and bring under one act the rules for critical infrastructure and critical information infrastructure. This will optimize our crisis management system and improve the resilience of the State and private stakeholders in managing crisis situations. 38 g. Other important areas of strategic concern 126. Czechia’s security interests require us to pay strategic attention to many other areas, such as environmental protection, pandemic security, social cohesion, societal security, protection of the rule of law, supply chain security, and food security. 127. We need a whole-of-society effort to reduce the risk of human-made and natural disasters, and to adapt to climate change. The main coordinator is the Ministry of the Environment. The Environment Ministry’s core strategy documents, based on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 20152030, include the Environmental Security Strategy of the Czech Republic 20212030 with outlook to 2050, Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Czech Republic, and the State Environmental Policy of the Czech Republic 2030 with outlook to 2050. The Environment Ministry has developed basic emergency management documentation for newly defined emergency 39