The Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the FAO supports all efforts to promote Blue Growth - with its emphasis on reconciling social and economic development with environmental performance - to all fisheries and aquaculture policies. It promotes and supports the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, in addition to providing scientific advice, strategic planning, and training materials. It serves as a neutral forum to discuss issues related to international cooperation and multistakeholder approaches. The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) used by the FAO is the appropriate and practical way to implement the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.

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.

The Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Government of the French Republic, recognising the importance of cooperation in maritime Search and Rescue, 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.

The Government of Saint Lucia and the Government of the French Republic passed an agreement on maritime search and rescue. Based on the SAR conferences held in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1984 and in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1994, which made France responsible for a maritime Search and Rescue Region (SRR), in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Eastern Caribbean Sea, in which Saint Lucia is geographically located. In this SRR, the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre is MRCC Fort-de-France.

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.

The Director of Civil Aviation, New Zealand, and the Haut Commissaire de la République française en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Délégué du Gouvernement, passed an arrangement for cooperation between New Zealand Search and Rescue Services and French Maritime Search and Rescue Services in New Caledonia. This arrangement especially defines the standard operating procedures for the Rescue Coordination Centres (RCCs), particularly the determination of the Responsible RCCs, the transferring of SAR Coordination Responsibility or the liaison during a SAR operation.

The Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu passed an agreement on maritime search and rescue, recalling that the SAR conference held in Seoul (Korea) in 1997 made France responsible for a maritime Search and Rescue Region (SRR), in which Vanuatu is geographically located. In this SRR, the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre is MRCC Nouméa, under the authority of the Haut-Commissaire de la République en Nouvelle-Calédonie délégué du Gouvernement.

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.

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.

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.