REMPEC attended the first out of 7 national workshops aiming at assessing the National Contingency Plans (NCP) of the Western Mediterranean coastal States, using the Readiness Evaluation Tool for Oil Spills (RETOS™), which was introduced at the Sub-regional Workshop on the assessment of the level of oil spill response planning and readiness management (24-26 April 2019, REMPEC, Valletta, Malta).

Malta organised this three-day workshop (08-10 October 2019) attended by 10 representatives from Maltese authorities involved in the NCP, namely Transport Malta, the Civil Protection Department, the Environmental and Resources Authority as well as the Armed Forces of Malta. They will benefit from the technical support provided by ITOPF Ltd to carry out the national self-assessment report including gap analysis, Global Performance Analysis and Global Improvement Programme of the Maltese NCP.

Other project members, namely Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia, will organise their respective national workshop between 2019 and 2020 as scheduled below: