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
The Maritime Safety and Security Training Centre (MSSTC) of the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) was established in 2003. The Centre provides courses related to Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) and Maritime Law Enforcement.
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/
Aboa Mare is a Maritime Academy and Training Center educating maritime professionals. With state of art simulators Aboa Mare develops and uses simulation and other efficient teaching methods, enabling skill and knowledge assessment through simulation. The navigation bridges in our simulation department are equipped with real instrumentation representing different Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) brands. In addition, we also have a complete engine control room (ECR) simulator as well as an ECR classroom simulator.
The Finnish Border Guard is an internal security agency operating under the Ministry of the Interior. The aim of our activities is to maintain peaceful conditions in the border areas of our country. Our main tasks are to guard Finland's borders on land and at sea, carry out border checks on persons at land border crossing points, ports and airports, and perform search and rescue operations, particularly at sea. Because Finland is a member of the European Union and a Schengen country, our activities focus on the external border.
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
Fisheries inspection and control and activities related to the above Coast Guard Functions Maritime environmental protection and response Maritime monitoring and surveillance Maritime border control The prevention and suppression of trafficking and smuggling and connected maritime law enforcement Maritime customs activities Maritime, ship and port security
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.
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