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Interpol

International Criminal Police Organization which is an inter-governmental organization (195 member countries) / fisheries crimes, marine pollution crimes (Eg. 30 days at sea)

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Environmental Protection & Response
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Countries involved

Naples II Convention

The Member States of the European Union shall provide each other with mutual assistance and shall cooperate with one another through their customs administrations, with a view to preventing and detecting infringements of national customs provisions; prosecuting and punishing infringements of Community and national customs provisions.

Coast Guard Functions
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Countries involved

Bilateral Arrangement for Cooperation between French Customs and Spanish Customs services (2013)

Convention on mutual assistance for detection and repression of customs fraud between France and Spain: joint operations, information exchange, area of operation for vessels and aircrafts, operational assistance, meetings.

Coast Guard Functions
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Countries involved

Memorandum of Understanding between the Finnish Border Guard and the Swedish Coast Guard

A Memorandum of Understanding between the Finnish Border Guard and the Swedish Coast Guard which defines bilateral cooperation between the two organizations in areas such as Maritime environmental response and surveillance, Maritime border surveillance, Maritime crime prevention, Technical cooperation, Training and education and Judicial matters.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
Ship Casualty & Maritime Assistance Service
Maritime Border Control
Maritime Environmental Protection & Response
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Maritime Search and Rescue
Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
Maritime Accident and Disaster Response
Countries involved

Sectoral Qualifications Framework for Coast Guard Functions

Submitted by beatriz.huarte on
Sectoral Qualifications Framework for Coast Guard Functions
Reference
ECGFF
Aims/Objectives/Audience

The SQFCGF is a meta-framework which eases the recognition of all vocational and academic education and training in the Coast Guard field. While on the one hand it facilitates the comparison of qualifications among EU Coast Guard functions Organisations and Agencies, on the other hand it has positive effects on interoperability and joint initiatives, as well as being a support for MMO operations. Its implementation is a voluntary but desirable process which will facilitate the development of the European Coast Guard Functions Training Network. This tool completes the analysis of the spectrum of the 11 Coast Guard Functions, in complementarity with the one for Border Guarding developed by Frontex (item Frontex 23) .

https://ecgff-trainingportal.efca.europa.eu/

Cyprus-US Proliferation Security Initiative Ship Boarding Agreement

It is actually a 'ship riding agreement' between the two governments concerning cooperation to suppress the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and related materials by sea. The agreement has been implemented in the National Legislation of the Republic of Cyprus by virtue of Law 38(ΙΙΙ)/2005 and applies to the armed forces as also to the law enforcement authorities of Cyprus including: Navy Command of the National Guard, the Cyprus Police (Cyprus Port & Marine Police), and the Customs & Excise Department.

Coast Guard Functions
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
Countries involved

Regional Maritime Information Centre – Madagascar (CRFIM)

Source: RMIFC Website

Based on information from Parties and Partners, the RMIFC receives, processes, fuses, stores, shares and exchanges information with the objective of issuing an alert in the event of imminent or proven danger to maritime security and safety in its general area of interest considered to be the regional maritime space laying between latitudes 26 ° North and 37 ° South and longitudes 20 ° East and 76 ° East. The general area of interest of the RMIFC is complementary to that of the IFC Singapore in the east and the Gulf of Guinea maritime safety and security architecture in the west.

Coast Guard Functions
Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
Maritime Border Control
Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
Maritime Accident and Disaster Response
Maritime Ship and Port Security
Countries involved

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