report from the 3 rd . meeting of the task force oil pollution prevention

Report from the 3rd. Meeting ofthe Task Force Oil Pollution Prevention

Picture: EPPR Chair at 80ONorth

Discussed documents

• Draft Action Plan for Cooperation between the Arctic States

• Document Arctic Petroleum Safety Draft list of measures Comments and background

• Document Arctic Maritime Safety Draft list of measures Comments and background

Highlights from the meeting – Oil and Gas

• Preliminary agreement to establish Arctic Regulators Forum. The link from the Forum to Arctic Council is not clear. EPPR might have a role.

• Presentations from the oil industry– Proposed a workshop to share information

about what the oil industry is doing. EPPR might have a role to arrange this (March 2015?)

Highlights from the meeting Maritime safety– Traffic monitoring and management

• Ship reporting systems• Aerial surveillance –( EPPR possible link to UAV project) • Access to and use of relevant data to improve analysis

(EPPR - CMERA??)

– Maritime services• Navigational charts – (PAME project?)• Improved meteorological and oceanographic forecasts• Marine Aids to Navigation• Identification of location and availability of emergency

response vessels and equipment to prevent groundings (SDWG AMAATI project - EPPR)

• Pilotage in Arctic waters• Increase availability of MARPOL port reception facilities

– Human resources – training, education, expertise– Reducing risk assosciated with the use of HFO

The way forward

• Binding Agreement or Action Plan?• Chairs/Canada will merge all documents

to one document • Canada to lead correspondence group on

behalf of Chairs• Next meeting: Nuuk, Greenland

September 10.-11, 2014• Most likely a last meeting in November

2014