The aim of the Civil Protection is to become a more specialised, efficient and modern emergency service, recognised for its complementary expertise within Civil Security at two levels: the Civil Protection at federal level and the emergency rescue zones at local level.

Specifically, the main principles of this new organisation are the following:

• two operational units : Crisnée and Brasschaat, true centres of expertise.
• a thorough specialisation in terms of the missions and the equipment collected in 4 groups, called "clusters": CBRN, Search And Rescue, Heavy Technical Deployment and Incident & Crisis Management
• a more interesting administrative and financial status in line with that of the fire brigade
• a new status for volunteers in line with that of professionals;
• a customized working scheme
• a rationalisation of the operational staff spread over the two units