The Netherlands National Handbook on Decision-Making in Crisis Situations relevant public and private partners may be consulted. Each ministry involved decides on the participation of the operational services and organisations that report to it. The ministry will also remain responsible for its own operational service(s). A representative of the NOCC can be asked to explain the advisory to one or more bodies in the national crisis structure. The NOCC ensures that operational aspects of the decisions taken in the national crisis structure are coordinated as effectively as possible, monitors their implementation and updates the advisory where necessary. It does so in consultation with the ministry responsible for the operational services. crisis powers or can participate in the RPT as crisis partners.14 The King’s Commissioner is the coordinating central government representative (“rijksheer”) of the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Minister of Security and Justice; he coordinates the provincial crisis managers and promotes cooperation between the central government representatives and the safety regions. Communication: National Core Team for Crisis Communication (NCTC) 9. The National Core Team for Crisis Communication (NCTC) coordinates press releases and public information. It advises the crisis committees at central government level on the communication strategy and communication consequences of proposals and decisions. The NCTC ‘brings the outside world inside’ by monitoring and analysing the media, internet and questions from the press and public. The NCTC formulates communication frameworks and key messages for all partners at central government level. It coordinates the timing and content of communications with other relevant parties. 10. The NCTC is headed by the Director of Communications of the Ministry of Security and Justice and/or the Director of Communications of the ministry with primary responsibility. The directors represent the communication sector in the ICMC/ MCMC. Day-to-day management of the NCTC is in the hands of the Communication Unit of the NCC and the coordinator of the press and public team. The NCTC’s basic staff consists of communication specialists from the Directorate of Information of the Ministry of Security and Justice and the Communication Unit of the NCC. If other ministries are involved, their communication specialists will also be part of the NCTC. In practice, the NCTC is managed substantively by the press and public team coordinator of the ministry with primary responsibility and functionally by the head of the NCC’s Communication Unit. Central government representatives (“Rijksheren”) 11. Where relevant, a representative of each minister can be appointed to liaise between the government and the Regional Policy Team (RPT) of the safety region. The following can be appointed as liaison officers: the regional military commander (Ministry of Defence), the regional ambassador (Ministry of Economic Affairs), the managing director of Rijkswaterstaat (Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) and the Health Inspector (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport). Other regional officers, services and organisations will retain their 14 Regional crisis partners include ProRail, Dutch Rail, drinking water companies, TenneT, energy companies, network managers, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Chief Public Prosecutors and State Harbour Masters. Depending on the situation, they can participate in the Regional Policy Teams and exercise their day-to-day duties and powers to play an important part in regional crisis management. 25