The purpose of this Law is to reduce disaster risks and achieve civil protection in order to guarantee the protection of human life, livestock, property, cultural heritage and environment by strengthening the civil protection system. This Law governs the functioning of the civil protection system defining the responsibilities of the institutions and structures of this system, international cooperation, the rights and obligations of citizens and private entities, education, training and inspection. The civil protection aims to create the conditions for a society able to reduce disaster risks, to prevent, prepare for, cope with disasters and to recover, through an integrated and efficient civil protection system in the Republic of Albania. Disaster is here intended as serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and coping capacity, leading to potential human, material, economic and environmental losses. Natural disaster shall be considered as any disaster caused by the extreme natural events, such as earthquakes, floods and overflows, extreme and prolonged temperatures, landslides, avalanches, strong winds on land and sea, massive forest fires, massive infectious diseases and others events that affect the human lives, livestock, property, cultural heritage and environment. Other disasters are defined as the technological, road, rail, marine, and air accidents, as well as fires, dam collapses, ecological or industrial nuclear accidents and other accidents caused by man, war or emergency state, the use of weapons and mass destruction means, terrorist attacks, and other types of mass violence.