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Contributions to Exchange of Experience Initiatives by
IMO, EMSA and Regional Organisations
Michel Girin
Director of Cedre.
SaferSeas / Management of Accidental Marine Pollution Seminar
• Dissemination of experience: he who faced a problem presents his decisions/actions to others, who may be interested
• Exchange of experience: different parties, having faced problems responding to similar situations discuss their respective decisions/actions, with the aim to do better next time
Exchanging Experience
• Dissemination of experience on response the Erika spill
• Exchange of experience on response to heavy fuel spills offshore
Examples
• Communicating one’s experience: focusing on the positive achievements or telling the truth to the negative points ?
• Party to exchange with: mutual confidence and mutual interest are required
•►A facilitator may be needed to convince the parties concerned to join and share
The limitations
• International: the IMO
• Europe: MCMP, EMSA, The Research framework and the Interreg programmes
• Regional: HELCOM, the Bonn, Lisbon and Barcelona Agreements
•►Cedre is technical adviser on marine pollution management to the French
delegations at all the above
The facilitators
• Worldwide seminars on particular thematics attached to the trio of International Conferences IOSC (USA), SPILLCON (Australia) and INTERSPILL (Europe)
• Ex: responding to heavy fuel oil spills, Brest, 2003
• ►Exchanges between scientists, industry and administrations, worldwide, low
frequency (next one : 2009)
IMO: the R&D Forums
• Incidents reviews at MCMP meetings
• The workshops, pilot studies, joint exercises and training sessions in the rolling plan
• The Eumarex exchange of experts programme
• ►Committee and plan terminated end of 2006.
► Programme integrated in civil security exchanges in mid 2007
Europe, DG Env, MCMP
Community framework for cooperation (2000-2006)
Objectives
• Support and supplement Member State’s efforts in the field of preparedness
• Improve Member State’s response• Promote efficient mutual assistance and cooperation
Current actions
• Management of a three-year rolling plan (workshops, pilot projects, exercises…)
• Community Information System (CIS)• Response to emergencies (via the Mechanism)
• Stays of a few days to a few weeks in a selected institution of another country
• Duration of programme: 5 years (2002-2006)
• Total experts exchanged: 120
• Countries first receivers: UK/Norway (18 Experts)
• Country first provider: Spain (24 Experts)
►A must for all involved in pollution response
Activities continue within the civil protection exchange programme
Example of MCMP achievement: the EUMAREX exchanges of
experts
• Thematic workshops : use of dispersants, response to HNS pollution...
• European reviews : oil spill recovery vessels, Eutopean cooperative projects...
• GroupS of European experts : satellite imagery, spill response...
• ►Progressively taking over the exchange of experience activities
in the terminated MCMP rolling plan
Europe, EMSA
• Places of refuge: cooperation, liability and compensation • Directive on port reception facilities for ship generated waste and cargo residues
• Implementation of Directive on ship-source pollution
• Pollution Response workshop for Bulgaria and Romania
• Revision of MARPOL annex VI
• Implementation of the HNS Convention
• Training for Bulgaria and Romania on the HNS Convention
• Ship-sourced Chemical Pollution at Sea: Risk, Preparedness & Response in Europe
• Ratification and Implementation of HNS and Bunkers Conventions
•Satellite Monitoring of Oil Spills over European Waters
•Use of Oil Spill Dispersants in European Waters
►Exchanges of experience + assistance to new members
Examples of recent EMSA workshops
• Cooperative research projects on all aspects of marine pollution prevention, response and impactss
• Development of improves tests, procedures and tools for response and response monitoring
►Progressively building the European scientific oil spill response know-how
Europe, Research framework programmes
•NEEDS: EU Energy needs for the future, externalities of oil transport
•DEEPP: Databank on potentially polluting shipwrecks
•INTERRISK: Interoperable GMES Services for Environmental Risk Management in Marine and Coastal Areas
•PRAGMA: Experimental tools to assess the extent and impact of a major oil spill
•RESPIL: Experimental impact study of 2 chemical pollutants
•OSH: Oil Sea Harvester, large offshore oil recovery vessel
•SPREEX: Spill response experience based research needs
•AMPERA: Optimisation of the EU Accidental Marine Pollution research effort
•ASMA: Survey, modelling and remote sensing techniques for Monitoring and Assessment of environmental impacts of submerged oil
►A wide variety of topics and participants
Examples of Cooperative Studies and Research Projects
Cooperative projects:
• to disseminate in local communities experience established at national level,
• to establish mutual assistance procedures between neighbouring communities
►Exchange of experience at local level
Europe, Interreg
Interreg South Western Atlantic:
• LOSTCONT: response to containers lost at sea. Partners from France, Spain, Portugal
• EROCIPS: Emergency Response to coastal Oil, Chemical and Inert Pollution from Shipping. Partners from UK, France, Spain, Portugal
• PRESTIGE: Experience gained from the Prestige incident. Partners from France, Spain
• ►Exchange of experience on practical matters
Examples of Interreg projects
• Helcom (Baltic), Bonn (North Sea) are self financed. Barcelona benefits of an IMO/EU financed facilitator (REMPEC)
•The information/services a country gets is what others bring in: incident reviews at technical meetings, mutual aid
• In the most advanced: a joint oil spill response manual, joint oil spil response exercises, with intercalibration
• ►Serving prioritarily operational response needs
Regional Agreements
• The mutual information on pollution incidents
• The common “color code” for slick thickness assessment
• The yearly operational spills in the North Sea map
• The joint oil spill response manual• The invitations to join members exercises• The mutual assistance agreement
• ►Tackling all aspects of the response package
Examples: Bonn agreement