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Regional:
Protocol Concerning Cooperation in Combating
Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by Oil and Other Harmful
Substances in cases of Emergency
Objectives:
To protect the Coastal States and the marine ecosystem of
the Mediterranean Sea area against pollution by oil and other
harmful substances.
Summary of Provisions:
- To cooperate in cases of pollution of the Mediterranean
Sea area by oil and other harmful substances in cases of
emergency
- To maintain and promote contingency plans and means for
combating pollution of the sea by oil and other harmful
substances
- To develop and apply monitoring activities covering the
Mediterranean Sea area and to cooperate in the salvage and
recovery of harmful substances.
- To disseminate to other parties information on their competent
national authorities for combating pollution, on reports
of pollution, on matters concerning measures of assistance,
on new ways to avoid and new measures to combat pollution
and on the development of related research programmes.
- To coordinate the utilization of their means of communication.
- To issue instructions to the masters of ships and aircraft
to report all accidents causing or likely to cause pollution,
and the presence, characteristics and extent of spillage.
Such information to be communicated to the other parties.
- To make the necessary assessments and to take every practicable
measure to avoid or reduce the pollution under emergency.
Date of Adoption:
16.2.1976 (Barcelona, Spain)
Date of entry into force:
12.2.1978
Arab Participants:
Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic
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