In September 2018 and for the first time after 20 years, the EFFIS products responsibility has been transferred from JRC to an external consortium, comprising of Earth Observation industry e-GEOS, the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) and Sertit SME. The start of this new era was marked in the EFFIS Kick-off Meeting that took place at JRC ISPRA on the 21st of September 2018, during which it was agreed that the new EFFIS operations will commence in mid-November 2018.

The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS - http://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/) supports Civil Protection Agencies in charge of the protection of natural ecosystems against fires in the EU countries, and provides the European Commission services and the European Parliament with updated and reliable information on wildland fires in Europe. EFFIS was operated since 1998 by the Joint Research Center (JRC) - the EU Science Hub, and in 2015 became part of the Early Warning component of the Emergency Management Services in the EU Copernicus program.