Oil Response Equipment Data Collection for Greece / Bi and Multi Lateral Agreements for Greece

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7.1. Oil Response Equipment data collection

for Greece

7.2. Bi and multi lateral agreements for

Greece

SEPTEMBER 2015

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Contents

7.1. Oil Response Data for Greece............................................................................................. 3

7.2. Bi and multi lateral agreements for Greece ..................................................................... 12

List of Abbreviations

EMSA

LCP

MoU

NCP

NSRC

ORSV

REMPEC

SRCP

European Maritime Safety Agency

Local Contingency Plan

Memorandum of Understanding

National Contingency Plan

National Search and Rescue Centre

Oil Pollution Response Vessels

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the

Mediterranean Sea

Sub-Regional Contingency Plan

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7.1. Oil Response Data for Greece

In the case of Greece, the basic methods described in various protocols as well as in

its NCP for fighting marine pollution from oil are:

- The hemming of blots with navigable dams and the collection of petroleum with

mechanic means

- The placement of navigable dams for the dissuasion of offence to sensitive sea

areas and coasts.

- The use of chemical spreading substances (HDO).

- The mechanic dissemination of blots, in cases that direct action is not required.

More specifically, the NCP of Greece specifies that the fundamental method of

marine pollution abatement in coastal and ecological sensitive regions is the

collection of oil by mechanical means. The use of chemical spreading substances

(such products are used only if approved by the State General Chemistry and the

National Centre for Maritime Research) is only allowed in the open sea and only if

the mechanical recuperation of petroleum is impossible, due to unfavourable

meteorological conditions. The use of these substances is explicitly forbidden in

closed or sensitive...