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===Germany===

The Federal Office for Citizen Protection and Disaster Support (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, BBK) is working on an implementation based on CAP 1.2, which will allow for Internet-based access to data provided by the nations modular warning system MoWaS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/AufgabenundAusstattung/Krisenmanagement/WarnungderBevoelkerung/Warnmultiplikatoren/Warnmultiplikatoren_node.html|title=Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe - Warnmultiplikatoren|publisher=}}</ref> The development of MoWaS is based on the satellite-based warning system SatWaS from 2001, which only provides information to less than 150 state and media entities. In case no broadcast receiver, like a radio or television, is running nearby, the resulting warning effect of SatWaS would be severely limited, because many state-run emergency sirens have been left unmaintained or were dismantled altogether. This is one of the issues, CAP support in MoWaS is hoped to alleviate.

===Italy===

The Department of fire corps, public rescue and civil defence of the Italian Ministry of the Interior adopted the CAP protocol with two Ministerial Decrees in [http://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/ReturnDocument.aspx?IdDocumento=4859 2008] and [http://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/ReturnDocument.aspx?IdDocumento=4855 2011.] Since then, its 100 provincial control rooms, 18 regional control rooms and the National control centre exchange an average of 25,000 CAP daily private messages concerning rescue operations in real time.

As per the decrees, any emergency stakeholder in Italy which wants to exchange or share data with the Fire Corps in the course of large scale emergency or rescue operations has to adopt the CAP protocol.

The first use of CAP protocol in a civil protection activity has been recorded in 2009, in the aftermath of the Central Italy Earthquake, when the Fire Corps exchanged data with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage to coordinate their efforts in designing and implementing provisional measures for monuments and historical buildings.

===United States===