Technical guidelines and tools

Regional Seas Secretariats Materials

REMPEC Operational Guidelines and Technical Documents	HELCOM Manuals and Guidelines	Bonn Agreement Manuals and Publications

HNS Preparedness and Response

• MARINER project and its knowledge tool, providing an inventory of HNS preparedness and response resources
• Operationnal guide on accidental HNS pollution of waters, produced by Cedre and Tranports Canada (2017) (FR)
•  Understanding  Chemical pollution at sea : http://www.chemical-pollution.com/Produced by Cedre in collaboration with Transport Canada aimed at 12 to 18-year-olds as well as their teachers and the general public.
• ChemSAR Handbook for Maritime SAR in HNS Incidents and other material

Oil Spill Preparedness and Response

• ITOPF Documentation on oil spills
• 2008 International Oil Spill Conference Guidelines
• ARPEL Manual and Tool to Evaluate Oil Spill Management Capabilities – RETOS V 2.1 (2017)

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International Conventions

International Pollution Conventions

• MARPOL Framework
• 2010 HNS Convention EN FR

Regional Seas Conventions

Mediterranean sea  

• Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean sea against Pollution (Barcelona Convention, 1976) EN FR
• 2002 Prevention and Emergency Protocol to the Barcelona Convention EN FR

 

Baltic sea                                          

• Convention on the protection of the marine environment of the Baltic sea area (Helsinki Convention, 1992) EN

   

 

 

 

North sea         

• Agreement for cooperation in dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances (Bonn Agreement, 1983) EN