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BELGIUM

With the aim of presenting the information in a clear and simple manner, the following organizational chart graphically represents the main coast guard authorities of Belgium together with their parent organisations.

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Strategic POCs from: BELGIUM

BELGIUM

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Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management Maritime Ship and Port Security Maritime Customs Activities Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement Maritime Border Control Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance Maritime Environmental Protection & Response Maritime Search and Rescue Ship Casualty & Maritime Assistance Service Maritime Accident and Disaster Response Fisheries Inspection & Control

None Arctic and North Atlantic Security and Emergency Preparedness Network (ARCSAR) Arctic Coast Guard Forum (ACGF) Arctic Council Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission (ARHC) Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Programme (AIDCP) (sister organisation to IATTC) AQUAPOL - International Police Cooperation on the Water Balkans and Black Sea Cooperation Forum (BBSCF) Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helcom) Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC) Baltic Sea Fisheries Forum (BALTFISH) Baltic Sea Task Force on Organised Crime (BSTF-OC) Barcelona Convention - Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Regions of the Mediterranean Black Sea Cooperation Forum (BSCF) Bonn Agreement - Cooperation in Dealing with Pollution in the North Sea Bucharest Convention - Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution Coordination Centre for Anti-Drug Enforcement in the Mediterranean (CeCLAD-M) Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) Convention on Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) Mediterranean AIS Regional Exchange System - MareΣ Mediterranean Coast Guard Functions Forum (MCGFF) Netherlands-Germany NETHGER Agreement 1991 Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources - Central Bering Sea (CCBSP) Copenhagen Agreement on the Cooperation in Combating against Pollution Incidents at Sea Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre - Narcotics (MAOC-N) Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Denmark-Germany DENGER Agreement 1993 Denmark-Germany-Netherlands DENGERNETH Agreement North Atlantic Coast Guard Forum (NACGF) Marine Accident Investigators International Forum (MAIIF) European Association of Airport and Seaport Police (EAASP) North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO) North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) Lisbon Agreement: Cooperation Agreement for the Protection of the Coasts and Waters of the Northeast Atlantic against Pollution Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) Ireland-UK MOU Between Irish Coast Guard, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the UKs Maritime and Coastguard Agency European Coast Guard Functions Forum (ECGFF) International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) North Sea and Channel Maritime Information Group (NSCMIG) International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) Information Fusion Centre – Singapore (IFC) European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) Joint Deployment Plans Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Greece-Malta Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Search and Rescue Greece-Italian MOU on Cooperation in Search and Rescue Greece-Cyprus Agreement Cooperation in the Field of Search and Rescue Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Port State Control Greece-Albania Protocol on Cooperation for Supervision of Sea Areas European Search and Rescue Plan (EUR Doc 039) - International Civil Aviation Organisation Poland-Denmark Operational Agreement on Maritime SAR Co-operation (1994) German Police and Customs Cooperation Centre (PCCC) for DENMARK (Padborg), POLAND (Swiecko) Poland-Germany Operational Agreement on SAR Co-operation (1993) European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCPM) German Maritime Search and Rescue Operational Agreements (Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, UK) Poland-Germany POLGER Agreement German Maritime Search and Rescue Joint Mutual Support (Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, UK) Poland-Germany Operational Agreement on Marine Accidents and Combating Marine Pollution on Pomeranian Bay (2001) Germany-Netherlands - River ‘EMS’ VTS Working Group Germany-Denmark – Agreement on Safety of Navigation in the KADETRENDEN Poland-Lithuania Governmental Agreement on Maritime and Aeronautical SAR Co-operation (2009) General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) France (New-Caledonia)-Australia: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (1999) France (La Réunion)-Australia: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2000) France (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon)-Canada: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2002) France-China: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation in the maritime search and rescue area (2005) Fisheries Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) France-Cyprus: Agreement on Maritime and Port Security France (New-Caledonia)-Vanuatu: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2004) Ireland-France SAR Technical Agreement France-United Kingdom MANCHE Plan France-Italy-Monaco RAMOGE Agreement France-Spain: Technical Arrangement for Joint Maritime Border Surveillance Poland-Norway Fisheries Control Agreement (2003) France-Spain LION Plan France-Italy-Monaco RAMOGEPOL Plan Poland-Russia Governmental Agreement on Maritime and Aeronautical SAR Co-operation (1996) France-Spain BISCAYE Plan France-Italy-Spain SAR MEDOCC France (La Réunion)-South Africa: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2001) France-Mauritius Island : Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2011) France-Monaco: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (1999) France (New-Caledonia)-New Zealand: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2002) Poland-Russia Working Agreement on Co-operation in combating Marine Pollution of the Baltic Sea and the Vistula Lagoon (2010) France-Portugal: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2008) Poland-Sweden Governmental Agreement on Aeronautical and Maritime SAR Co-operation (1998) France-Portugal Cooperation Plan: On Request for Assistance in Case of Large-scale Spill Response France (Martinique)-Saint Lucia: Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between SAR Services (2001) Regional Maritime Information Centre – Madagascar (CRFIM) Portugal-Spain Memorandum of Cooperation between GNR and Guardia Civil Portugal-Spain ESPPS Exchange of Situational Picture of Neighbouring External Border Sections between the National Coordination Centres Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) Sea Surveillance Cooperation Baltic Sea (SUCBAS) South-East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) Sweden-Denmark-Germany SWEDENGER Agreement 2002 Virtual-Regional Maritime Traffic Centre (V-RMTC)/Trans-Regional Maritime Network (T-RMN) Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Western Central Atlantic Fisheries Commission (WECAFC) South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) Slovenia-Italy MOU on SAR in Northern Adriatic Slovenia-Croatia-Italy MOU on Mandatory Ship Reporting System in Adriatic Sea (Adriatic Traffic) Slovenia-Croatia Contingency Plan for Prevention of, Preparedness for, and Response to Major Marine Pollution Incidents in the Adriatic Sea Slovenia-Croatia-Italy MOU on the Establishment of a Common Routing System and Traffic Separation Scheme in Northern Part of the North Adriatic Slovenia-Croatia Agreement on Cooperation in Protection against Natural and Man-Made Disasters Slovenia-Italy MOU on Cooperation in the Area of Disaster Management Slovenia-Italy Protocol on Cross-border Cooperation in Forecasting, Prevention and Mutual Assistance in case of Natural and other Disasters Cyprus-Syria Agreement Cooperation in the Field of Search and Rescue Cyprus-Egypt MOU on Cooperation in Search and Rescue Cyprus-Israel Agreement Cooperation in the Field of Search and Rescue Cyprus-Lebanon Cyprus-US Proliferation Security Initiative Ship Boarding Agreement Memorandum of Understanding between the Finnish Border Guard and the Swedish Coast Guard Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between French Customs and Spanish Customs services (2013) Naples II Convention Interpol Spain-Algeria Memorandum of Understanding on technical cooperation and SAR-LCC collaboration Spain-Algeria SARMED France-Spain: CEDRE-SASEMAR Agreement Memorandum of Understanding on maritime, terrestrial, and aerial transport between Libyan Ministry of Transport and Spanish Ministry of Transport Morocco-Spain Cooperation Agreement on Civil Protection mechanism Tanger-Tarifa Operational procedures for maritime traffic UK-Spain Cooperation Agreement on SAR Croatia-Italy MOU on SAR in Northern Adriatic Greece- Egypt MOU on Cooperation in the field of Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Arctic SAR agreement SAR protocol between Finland and Russia Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic (MOSPA) SAR Protocol between Finland and Sweden SAR protocol between Finland and Estonia

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