The RAMOGE Agreement between France, Italy and Monaco establishes a joint intervention plan for spill response in the Mediterranean Sea (from the mouth of Rhône river on the West, to the lighthouse of Capo d’Anzio in the East, including Corsica and Sardinia islands). The area is divided into 2 sub-areas, one where each party shall provide assets in an automatic way, and the other where joint intervention is scheduled only after request to national authority concerned by the pollution. The plan describes all the operational procedures, assets available, time to mobilize, expertise, national doctrines for use of dispersants etc.

This bilateral agreement signed in 1978 and regularly updated aims at coordinating French and UK capabilities in case of maritime disaster in their adjacent waters. Its guideline is the designation of a single authority for the coordination of the response involving the two parties. An Anglo French accident technical group (AFATG) meets twice a year.

This agreement aims at establishing the technical terms and procedures for requests for assistance between the Irish Coast Guard coordination Centre and the French Maritime Prefecture for the Atlantic ocean, to implement air assets in complex or serious SAR operations e.g. operating far offshore within the SRR of the contracting parties.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

German authorities have established Memorandums of Understanding (MoU’s) on Joint Mutual Support for Maritime Search and Rescue with Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.