**THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
* -*With this presentation I would like to introduce you with
BSBCIC located in Burgas, Bulgaria. -* -*Globalization and dynamic
economic development of the Black Sea Region lead to a rise of the
ships traffic in the Black Sea.
All this is naturally connected with an activated criminality
searching for ways of realizing its illegal activity.
The common interest of the Black Sea Countries towards
strengthening security and stability in the Region united the
efforts of the Border Police/Coast Guard for an efficient
countering of terrorism and cross-border crime in all its forms and
aspects.
The first meeting of the Leaders of the Border Police/Coast
Guard Authorities of the Black Sea Littoral States was held in May,
2000, in Istanbul on the initiative of Turkey. The aim of this
meeting was a forum of cooperation to be developed in the field of
the coast guards between the countries of the Black Sea region. The
delegations of the participating countries the Russian Federation,
Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria decided that the
basis of this forum would be the bilateral agreements on
cooperation in the field of the coast guard. -* -*On 16.10.2003 at
the third annual meeting of the Border Police/Coast Guard
Authorities of the Black Sea Littoral States held in Odessa,
Ukraine, the Leaders took a decision and signed a protocol on the
establishment of the Bulgarian National Border Center in Burgas as
a constantly working Black Sea Border Coordination and Information
Center (BSBCIC) for providing the cooperation with the National
Border Coordination Centers (NBCC) of the Black Sea countries.
The BSBCIC has been established by the Bulgarian Border Police
and officially works since 01.01.2004. The BSBCIC is a permanent
structure. -* -*On 08.11.2006 at the annual meeting held in
Istanbul, Turkey, the Leaders of the Black Sea Littoral States
Border Police/Coast Guard Agencies decided to create the Black Sea
Cooperation Forum (BSCF) through which the National Coordination
Center and the BSBCIC would cooperate each other and exchange
information.
The BSCF is a form of the Black Sea Littoral States Border
Police/Coast Guard Agencies cooperation which is aimed at providing
meetings, negotiations, possible sharing experience, ideas and
major principles of cooperation development.
Parties agreed to establish a Secretariat of the BSCF under the
responsibility of the acting chair-country. -* -*Areas of
cooperation are operative, technical and information cooperation
with NBCC of the Black Sea countries:
1. Operative cooperation: coordination of actions between the
governing and executive bodies on the control of maritime traffic,
surveillance of risky areas or particular areas, forming the
overall picture of the surface of the sea in the region; 2.
Technical cooperation: establishing and maintenance of the
communication channel for contact with the participating countries;
3. Information cooperation: data exchange and coordination of the
actions among the states in the operational use of forces and means
at sea as well as control of the border regime and the prevention
of crimes.
Main tasks: - Maintaining and updating the database of vessels
suspected for illegal activities-List of suspected ships /LOSS/; -
Preparing and sending a monthly report of the updated LOSS to NBCC
and the effectiveness of the information exchange; - Making a
constant exchange of information by approved forms about movements
of the vessels suspected for illegal activities in the Black Sea by
Automated information exchange system, fax, e-mail, etc.; - Data
exchange of ships traffic in the Black Sea and support for the
security of navigation and shipping; - A 24-hour-cooperation with
the Bulgarian State Authorities responsible for national Black Sea
waters; - Coordination of activities in carrying out joint actions
for border control operations and search and rescue at sea; -
Preparing and submitting to NBCC monthly and quarterly analysis of
the information exchange and specific events for the period
mentioned, concerning operational situation of illegal activities
detected in different countries; - A 24-hour-monitoring,
observation and control of sea traffic in Bulgarian territorial
waters, collecting of information, evaluating and analyzing of
every single situation with a view to take management decisions on
duty forces. -* -*The total area of responsibility of RDBP-Burgas
is 20000 sq. km. -* -*In order to carry out the radiolocation
surveillance at the state border there are the Stationary
Surveillance Posts (SSP) equipped with radar stations,
communication means and equipment for night-day vision.
For providing the technical surveillance, control and protection
in the dead areas for SSP-s, coastal forces are equipped with
devices for day and night vision, mobile systems for thermo vision
surveillance with an option of recording the observed targets,
manual thermo cameras, VHF radio connection tools and TETRA.
-* -*In order to guarantee security of the border the BSBCIC
co-operates and interacts with the authorities with competence in
the maritime area through exchange of information and carrying out
of joint checks.
-* -*Since 01.01.2007 the major tool of communication between
all parties concerned (NBCC-s) in Black Sea has been Automated
information exchange system (AIES), whose access is limited to the
participating states. -* -*This system establishes a permanent and
stable channel for exchange of various types and forms of
information. What is achieved is a real time information exchange
to all NBCC with current data of suspicious ships, actions
undertaken and results thereof. At the Black Sea Border
Coordination Information Centre is maintained a database with
information about ships suspected of illegal activity that is
permanently updated.
-* -*The correct infilling of documentation, duly sending of
actual information about a suspicious ship, lay in the basis of
analyzing a single situation and taking appropriate activities for
prevention of violation, within observing international and local
legislation. -* -*Before the introduction of the AIES-For the
period 2004 2006 the exchange of information among the BSBCIC in
Burgas and the NBCC has increased 5 times.
After the introduction of the AIES-In 2007 the exchange of
information among the BSBCIC in Burgas and the NBCC has increased
almost 2 times.
-* -*Before the introduction of the AIES-For the period 2004
2006 the exchange of information among the BSBCIC in Burgas and the
NBCC has increased 5 times.
After the introduction of the AIES-In 2007 the exchange of
information among the BSBCIC in Burgas and the NBCC has increased
almost 2 times.
-* -*The working places in BSBCIC are equipped with modern
techniques and program products as AIES, TRANSAS, VT EXPLORER for
Maritime Administration and Border Police, NAVTEX, Radars
visualization of Border Police SSPs, etc.
Navi Harbour Remote Terminal-TRANSAS provides users with
different navigational information, allows identification and
tracking of ships and other navigational objects in coastal areas
as well as ships planning in coastal waters.
-* -*VT Explorer is a system collecting, processing and
displaying real time data received by the vessels AIS transponders.
Automated Identification System (AIS) operates in VHF band and the
coverage area strongly depends on the propagation conditions of the
radio signal.
-* -*Vessel Traffic Explorer-Border Police Edition (VTE-BPE) is
a system for surveillance and control of the vessels traffic and it
is used for analyzing the movement of suspected ships.
BSBCIC receives and processes the information from Stationary
Surveillance Posts as the information from some of them is
integrated in the system VTE-BPE in real time.
All these systems and sources of information are crucial for
obtaining a comprehensive and realistic maritime picture.
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