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European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Project

Multinational Response and Preparedness to Oil and Chemical Spills (MARPOCS)

The Lisbon Agreement, recently ratified by Spain, Morocco, France, Portugal and EU, envisions the regional cooperation in the case of marine pollution incidents. The overarching goal of MARPOCS is to take advantage of previously developed work at international and EU level in different aspects of accidental marine pollution, and to develop and implement an integrated operational framework for preparedness and response to oil and HNS spills in the Atlantic sub-region involving Morocco, Madeira and Canary Islands in the context of Lisbon Agreement, making it easily transferable and extendable to other areas.

The general objective is achieved by the sharing and development of common guidelines, methodologies, model-based decision support tools and exercises adapted to the regions of study and promoted by effective implementation and training of local, regional and national authorities.MARPOCS will also promote the exchange of technologies and information between all the partners, and between authorities of the different countries, strengthening capacity for mutual assistance and multinational preparedness and response to accidental pollution episodes in this cross-border sub-region.

Beneficiary

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa
Portugal

http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Project coordinators

1) Action Modulers, Portugal, www.actionmodulers.com
2) Centre de Documentation, de Recherche, et d’Experimentations sur les Pollutions Accidentelles des Eaux, France, wwz.cedre.fr
3) Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação – Associação, Portugal, www.arditi.pt
4) Consorcio para el diseño, construcción, equipamiento y explotación de la Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias, Spain, www.plocan.eu
5) Universidade de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, www.ulpgc.es (affiliated entity: Fundación Canaria Parque Científico Tecnológico, Spain, www.pct.ulpgc.es)

Presentation at the kick off meeting