The other day I had a chance to read a magazine article on an interview with the Dutch Ambassador to Japan, and was impressed by how calmly the Dutch Embassy had responded to the recent earthquake. I learned that the Embassy had conducted training under the guidance of a crisis management consultant in November last year.
3  According to the EU institutions' reading, they are not authorised to make far-reaching exceptions to strengthen the principle of proportionality if those exceptions are not specifically provided for in the relevant sections of the CRR, CRD IV etc.