NAMIRS
North Adriatic Maritime Incident Response System
NAMIRS, in the wake of the project NAMIRG (lead by CEI), was funded to help prevent and support a coordinated cross border response to marine pollution in the North Adriatic Sea due to at-sea and on-shore incidents such as oil spills which have devastating environmental and economic consequences.
Regional cooperation and cross-sectorial coordination will be reinforced by identifying, upgrading and integrating the knowledge, tools and resources available within the NAMIRS partnership.
Project partners will elaborate in the coming months specific Guidelines for the revision & update of the Sub-Regional Contingency Plan for the Adriatic Sea, which had already been signed by the three partner countries in 2005 but never entered into force. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for first responders will be also outlined, which will be the object of a dedicated common Training programme later validated in a simulation exercise at-sea that will be organised in the Gulf of Trieste.
This cooperative process will result in smoother communication and interoperability through the establishment of a ready-for-operations sub-regional mechanism at prompt disposal of North Adriatic countries and the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, easily transferable to the other Adriatic-Ionian countries.
PARTNERS:
- CEI - Central European Initiative (IT), lead partner
- URSZR - Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (SLO)
- OGS
- ATRAC - Adriatic Training and Research Centre for Accidental Marine Pollution Preparedness and Response (CRO)
- UL-FPP – University of Ljubljana – Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport (SLO)
- MSTI - Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure (CRO)
- GC - Guardia Costiera (IT)
SUPPORTERS, COLLABORATORS & SIMILAR:
IzVRS - Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia, appointed leader of NAMIRS activity 2.2
URSP - Slovenian Maritime Administration – Ministry of Infrastructure (SLO)
EUSAIR - TSG 3 Coordinator, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (SLO)
MAECI - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (IT)
Barcolana Sea Summit (IT)