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France-Cyprus: Agreement on Maritime and Port Security

Source: Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Defence – Maritime Gendarmerie

An agreement between French maritime Gendarmerie and Cyprus Maritime Police where both parties cooperate on exchange of crewmembers, education on maritime security (given by the French Maritime Gendarmerie), support to the re-organisation of Cyprus CROPMar, etc. Planned to exchange information.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Ship and Port Security
Countries involved

France-China: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation in the maritime search and rescue area (2005)

Source: Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition – Directorate for Maritime Affairs

The French Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China passed an Arrangement on maritime search and rescue and maritime assistance, aimed to improve skills, techniques and technology in life saving at sea. This agreement also enables the Parties to exchange information about ways, approaches and the regime to organize and coordinate both government and non-government rescue forces and resources.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Search and Rescue
Countries involved

France (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon)-Canada: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2002)

Source: Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition – Directorate for Maritime Affairs

Following the report of the International Maritime Organization Conference on Maritime Search and Rescue in the Atlantic Ocean, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal in 1994, Canada and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon agreed an Arrangement on maritime SAR. The Parties confirmed that the French territorial sea of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is included in the Canadian Search and Rescue Region of Halifax (SRR Halifax), for which the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre is JRCC Halifax.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Search and Rescue
Countries involved

France (La Réunion)-Australia: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2000)

Source: Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition – Directorate for Maritime Affairs

The Chief Executive, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and Le Préfet de La Reunion, Délégué du Gouvernement pour l’action de l’Etat en mer, recognising the importance of cooperation in maritime SAR and the need to ensure expeditious and effective search and rescue services, passed and Arrangement on maritime search and rescue. The Rescue Coordination Centres of both parties will especially assist each other, to the extent possible, in the conduct of SAR missions in their respective Search and Rescue Regions (SRRs) and across their common SRRs boundaries and will regularly exchange SAR information concerning an actual distress or a potential distress situation. This Arrangement was amended in 2011.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Search and Rescue
Countries involved

France (New-Caledonia)-Australia: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (1999)

Source: Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition – Directorate for Maritime Affairs

The Chief Executive, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and the Haut Commissaire de la République française en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Délégué du Gouvernement, recognising the importance of cooperation in maritime SAR and the need to ensure expeditious and effective search and rescue services, passed and Arrangement on maritime search and rescue. The Rescue Coordination Centres of both parties will especially assist each other, to the extent possible, in the conduct of SAR missions in their respective Search and Rescue Regions (SRRs) and across their common SRRs boundaries and will regularly exchange SAR information concerning an actual distress or a potential distress situation.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Search and Rescue
Countries involved

Fisheries Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF)

Source: FAO Website

The purpose of the Committee is to promote the sustainable utilization of the living marine resources within its area of competence by the proper management and development of the fisheries and fishing operations. Established in 1967, its members are Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, the Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, European Union, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Togo, and the United States of America.

Coast Guard Functions
Fisheries Inspection & Control

Poland-Norway Fisheries Control Agreement (2003)

Source: Polish General Sea Fisheries Inspectorate

This agreement was signed on 1.02.2003 by the former Polish Regional Sea Fisheries Inspectorates in Gdynia, Słupsk and Szczecin and the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. It covers the cooperation in the fields of monitoring, control and surveillance of fisheries, especially the exchange of information on landings and inspections, exchange of personnel between the relevant control authorities.

Coast Guard Functions
Fisheries Inspection & Control
Countries involved

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)

Source: FAO Website

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) is a regional fisheries management organization (RFMO) established under the provisions of Article XIV of the FAO Constitution. The main objective of the GFCM is to ensure the conservation and the sustainable use, at the biological, social, economic and environmental level, of living marine resources as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea (GFCM area of application). The GFCM is currently composed of 24 members (23 member countries and the European Union) who contribute to its autonomous budget to finance its functioning and 5 Cooperating non Contracting Parties (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Jordan, Moldova and Ukraine).

Coast Guard Functions
Fisheries Inspection & Control

Germany-Denmark – Agreement on Safety of Navigation in the KADETRENDEN

This Danish-German Arrangement on measures aimed at increasing the safety of navigation in the Kadetrenden was signed in 2001.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
Countries involved

Poland-Lithuania Governmental Agreement on Maritime and Aeronautical SAR Co-operation (2009)

Source: Notification 192/2012 by Prime Minister Republic of Poland 22.11.2012 & Polish Maritime Search and Rescue Organisation

This agreement on Maritime and Aeronautical SAR Co-operation was signed in Vilnius 19.10.2009 between Ministry of Infrastructure in Poland and Ministry of Transport in Lithuania.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Search and Rescue
Countries involved