L 239/56 EN Official Journal of the European Union 19.9.2017 Examples of recent Phase I reported events include the forest fires in Portugal and Israel, the 2016 Berlin attack, floods in Albania, Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and the drought in Bolivia. Any DG can open a Phase I event when it judges that a situation in its domain of competence is serious enough to warrant or benefit from information-sharing. For instance, DG CNECT or DG HOME can open a Phase I event when they judge that a cyber situation in their respective domain of competence is serious enough to warrant or benefit from information-sharing. Phase II: is triggered in case of major multisectoral crisis or foreseeable or imminent threat for the Union. Phase II triggers a specific coordination process enabling the Commission to take decisions and manage a rapid, coordinated and coherent response, at the highest level in its domain of competence and in cooperation with the other institutions. Phase II is meant for a major multisectoral crisis or foreseeable or imminent threat thereof. Examples of real-life Phase II events include the migration/refugee crisis (2015-ongoing), Fukushima triple disaster (2011) and the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland (2010). Phase II is activated by the President on his own initiative or at the request of a Member of the Commission. The President may allocate the political responsibility for the Commission response to a Commissioner responsible for the service most concerned by the crisis at hand or decide to keep the responsibility to himself. It foresees emergency meetings of the Crisis Coordination Committee (CCC). These are called under the authority of the President or a Commissioner to whom responsibility was assigned. The meetings are convened by SG through the ARGUS IT tool. The CCC is a specific operational crisis management structure established to lead and coordinate the Commission's response to the crisis, bringing together representatives of relevant Commission DGs, Cabinets, and other EU services. Chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General, the CCC assesses the situation, considers options and takes decisions, as well as ensures that decisions and actions are implemented while ensuring the coherence and consistency of the response. Support to the CCC is provided by the SG. 4. EEAS CRISIS RESPONSE MECHANISM The EEAS Crisis Response Mechanism (CRM) is activated upon occurrence of a serious situation or emergency concerning or anyway involving the external dimension of the EU. CRM is activated by DSG for Crisis Response, after consultation with the HRVP or the Secretary-General. DSG for Crisis Response can also be requested to initiate the Crisis Response Mechanism by the HRVP, or the SG, or another DSG or MD. The CRM contributes to EU's coherence in crisis response within the Security Strategy. In particular, the CRM facilitates sinergy between diplomatic, security and defence efforts with financial, trade and cooperation instruments managed by the Commission. The CRM is linked to the Commission's general emergency response system (ARGUS) and the EU Integrated Political Crisis Response arrangements (IPCR) in order to exploit synergies in case of simultaneous activation. The Situation Room in the EEAS acts as communication hub between the EEAS and the emergency response systems in the Council and Commission. Normally, the first action related with the CRM implementation is the calling of a Crisis Meeting among EEAS, Commission and Council senior managers directly affected by the crisis in question. The Crisis Meeting assesses the short-term effects of the crisis and may agree on taking immediate action, or activating the Crisis Cell, or convening a Crisis Platform. Those courses can be implemented in any time sequence. The Crisis Cell is a small-scale operations room where representatives of EEAS, Commission and Council services involved in the response to the crisis gathers to monitor the situation continuously in order to provide support to the EEAS Headquarters decision-makers. When activated, the Crisis Cell is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Crisis Platform gathers relevant EEAS, Commission and Council services to provide assessment on medium and long-term effects of crises and agree on action to be taken. It is chaired by the HRVP, or the Secretary-General, or the DSG for Crisis Response. The Crisis Platform evaluates the effectiveness of EU action on crisis country or region, decides on amendments of additional measures and discusses proposals for Council action. The Crisis Platform is an ad hoc meeting; therefore, it is not permanently activated.