The Exchange Programme (2024)
To strengthen the cross-border and cross-sectoral cooperation between coast guard authorities from EU member states, Iceland, and Norway, an exchange programme is implemented from February 2024 until January 2025.
The interested authorities, presented below, proposed 28 different exchange offers
Read here an article about the first exchange that took place in Italy in February 2024. Host organizations
Website: https://www.agentschapmdk.be/EN
Website: https://mobilit.belgium.be/nl
Fisheries Inspection Sector is unit within the Directorate of Fisheries in Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries of the Republic of Croatia. Head office is in Zagreb. Fisheries inspectors are authorized to carry out inspections and controls related to all commercial, recreational and sport fishing and inspections related to the market of fishery products.
Website: https://ribarstvo.mps.hr/
Finnish Border Guard’s Border and Coast Guard Academy
Website: https://raja.fi/en/frontpage
The Ship Safety Center (CSN) Bordeaux is a regional department of the inter-regional maritime directorate South-Atlantic specialized in the prevention of maritime occupational hazards. Its activities include flag state and port state inspections on merchant and fishing vessels.
Website: https://www.dirm.sud-atlantique.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/les-centres-de-securite-des-navires-sur-la-facade-r574.html
Phone: +33 556 008 350
CROSS-A Etel gathers three operational centers:
- ETEL MRCC and ETEL Traffic (SRR is covering the French Atlantic Coast)
- French Fisheries Monitoring Center (mainland and overseas territories).
- French national center for marine environment monitoring and control (mainland and overseas territories).
Website: douane.gouv.fr
Phone: +33 970 279 700
Civil administration in charge of the surveillance and protection of the maritime border, the French Customs Coast Guard provides a wide variety of offshore and semi-offshore missions; including fiscal and environmental missions, but also the fight against smuggling and public service at sea (rescue).
Website: www.lhg.is
The Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) is a law enforcement agency that is responsible for search and rescue, maritime safety and security surveillance, and law enforcement in the seas surrounding Iceland.
Centro di Aviazione – Gruppo Addestramento Aeronavale is a training institution for pilots, technicians, system operators.
Phone: +39 06 91 919
The Guardia di Finanza has the exclusive function of economic and financial police at sea, giving its support in maintaining public order and security and combating illegal trafficking.
Italian Coast Guard is historically entrusted with the discipline and supervision of all maritime and port activities. It performs tasks related to the civil uses of the sea, protection of human life at sea, safety of navigation and maritime transport, as well as the protection of the marine environment, its ecosystems and the supervision of the entire maritime fisheries sector. In addition, Italian Coast Guard carries out inspections on national merchant vessels, fishing vessels and recreational vessels, including foreign merchant ships calling at national ports.
Website: https://www.morski.strazgraniczna.pl
Phone: +48 585 242 090
Maritime administration authority operates in Polish maritime areas, i.e. internal waters, territorial sea, i.e. in areas where the Polish state exercises territorial sovereignty, and to a limited extent in areas of the exclusive economic zone, where, in accordance with the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Polish state exercises rights sovereign, in ports and sea harbors, as well as in the coastal belt running along the sea coast.
Maritime Office in Szczecin is the Polish governmental maritime authority subordinated to Ministry of Maritime Economy. The territorial range of Maritime Office in Szczecin covers internal sea waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, seaports, havens and coastal zone, from the west border of Poland to the meridian 16˚41’56,70" of Eastern longitude.
Website: www.ums.gov.pl
The National Maritime Authority System (SAM) corresponds to the institutional framework of Entities, Bodies and Services, that have coordination, executive, advisory or law enforcement functions, whose purpose is to guarantee compliance with the law in maritime spaces under national sovereignty and jurisdiction. This Framework includes agencies at local, regional and national level, responsible for the coordination, advice and law enforcement.
Romanian Maritime Training Centre - CERONAV is a self-financed non-profit public institution established in 1976 in Constanta, Romania. It is subordinated to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and has been nominated as the national body for the training of seafarers, river and port personnel and provide training under STCW Convention and beyond, including training for offshore rig personnel.
Training centre of the Spanish Maritime Safety and Rescue Agency
Website: http://www.centrojovellanos.es/
Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Tarifa of the Spanish Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.
Single point of contact (SPOC) for authorities and maritime organisations in SAR, traffic monitoring and pollution emergencies at national and international level.
Equipped with the latest technology, gives support to the MRCCs.
Website: www.salvamentomaritimo.es/
Operations is responsible for:
- Planning, direct, implement and follow up the coordination from MRCCs and operations at sea and in the air related to the emergencies under the framework of their competencies.
- The legal and other matters that the outcome of the operational activities can give rise to.
- Crisis preparedness and response focuses on preparing for and responding to major incidents.
- Marine fleet management and management of our major contracts for the aerial units.
Website: www.salvamentomaritimo.es/