The context of this CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) is disaster and emergency management, and it aims to assist organizations involved by providing the list of codes for the message structure for the transfer of information between computers based systems in such a way that it can be reliably decoded. This is done by encoding the information in an XML Schema. This CWA-Part 2 provides a system of terms relating to disasters and emergencies and their encoding. Many of the XML fields are required to use a term from this companion CWA-Part 2, rather than free text, so that the information is well defined, and can be automatically translated into language appropria