Czech Republic - rescEU Transition Forest Firefighting Capacities using helicopter, summer season 2025 - 2

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Czech Republic - rescEU Transition Forest Firefighting Capacities using helicopter BlackHawk UH 60A with capacity of water bucket 3410 l. The main objective of the project is to increase capacities for forest firefighting in the Czech Republic and to contribute to strengthening response capacities at Union level. Ministry of Interior together with Ministry of Environment as associated partner will subcontract provider of the service for summer season 2025 according to the Framework Agreement between the Ministry of Interior – Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic and Heli Company, s.r.o. for the period of 2024 to 2027. Public tender for provider of AFFF with helicopter was already carried out in 2024 and framework agreement was signed with duration of 4 years. Each year will be signed contract for particular summer season with duration of 3 months starting from 15 June and ending at 15 September from 2024. For the UCPM activation will be service available from 1 July to 15 September 2025 according to the conditions set in the Call UCPM-2025-rescEU-Transition-IBA.