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On July 22, 2026, Latvia's State Chancellery Crisis Management Centre published the National Risk Catalogue, a comprehensive risk assessment instrument designed to strengthen state resilience and crisis management planning. The catalogue identifies and categorises 48 distinct types of threats across six categories: natural hazards, technological risks, cyber threats, human-caused incidents, societal risks, and health-related threats. The document also addresses low-probability, high-impact scenarios and emerging risks with future implications. Each threat is defined by three elements: the hazardous event or process, its probability of occurrence, and its potential consequences. The National Risk Catalogue incorporates a tolerance matrix that establishes which risk zones Latvia considers acceptable and which require immediate action. The instrument provides a unified, evidence-based foundation for systematic risk identification, assessment, and analysis to support state resilience, crisis management planning, and decision-making across government institutions, critical infrastructure operators, the non-governmental sector, businesses, and the public. The Crisis Management Centre developed the catalogue by drawing on international best practices, including risk catalogues from other countries and their methodological frameworks, national-level civil protection and disaster management planning documents, and statistical analysis. The catalogue's development and implementation represent an inter-institutional process with clearly defined roles for the Crisis Management Centre, the State Fire and Rescue Service, sectoral ministries, and other relevant agencies. The catalogue is intended to serve as a support instrument for state and municipal institutions, critical infrastructure managers, the non-governmental sector, businesses, and Latvia's residents in identifying, understanding, and preparing for risks.