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At the international level the community under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed that adaptation is imperative as a complementary second column of climate policy (to mitigation). European countries and the European Commission being Parties to the Convention have committed themselves to “formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national and, where appropriate, regional programmes […] and measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change” (Article 4, paragraph 1 of the UNFCCC Convention). This commitment has been refined under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) with Decision 5/CP.17 on National Adaptation Plans¹. Herewith the Conference of Parties acknowledged “that national adaptation planning can enable all developing and developed country Parties to assess their vulnerabilities, to mainstream climate change risks and to address adaptation”.