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.

This operational cooperation plan applies to large-scale spill response (oil, HNS). It establishes the technical conditions and procedures for requests for assistance between the General Direction of the Maritime Authority (Portugal) and the Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic (France) regarding the deployment and activation of assets. The applicable area is between the parallels 40°N and 46°N, and from the meridian 14°W, to the Portuguese, Spanish and French coasts. The parties may agree to extend it beyond this area in case of exceptional situation.

The Ministry of Transport and Maritime Economy in Poland and the Maritime Administration in Sweden signed this agreement on Aeronautical and Maritime SAR Co-operation in Stockholm on 10.06.1998.

The Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Portuguese Republic passed an agreement for the exchange of information between the French Antilles and the Portuguese maritime search and rescue services. The maritime rescue coordination centres (MRCCs) of the two Parties shall regularly exchange the information, especially when a SAR operation is launched on the high seas in their search and rescue area. They shall exchange information on the available units in proximity to the location of the alert and carry out combined liaison tests at least to ensure their capacity to communicate.

The Director of Civil Aviation, New Zealand, and the Haut Commissaire de la République française en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Délégué du Gouvernement, passed an arrangement for cooperation between New Zealand Search and Rescue Services and French Maritime Search and Rescue Services in New Caledonia. This arrangement especially defines the standard operating procedures for the Rescue Coordination Centres (RCCs), particularly the determination of the Responsible RCCs, the transferring of SAR Coordination Responsibility or the liaison during a SAR operation.

The Government of the French Republic and the Government of His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco passed an agreement on maritime search and rescue, recalling that the SAR conference held in Valencia (Spain) in 1997 on the initiative of the International Maritime Organization assigned France a maritime Search and Rescue Region (SRR) in the Mediterranean Sea. Monegasque territorial waters shall be included in the SRR assigned to France in the Mediterranean Sea. In this SRR, the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre shall be CROSS La Garde, under the authority of the Préfet maritime de la Méditerranée. In the context of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), this centre shall receive alerts coming from Monegasque territorial waters.

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Poland and the Government of Russian federation on cooperation in combating marine pollution of the Baltic sea and the Vistula Lagoon by oil or other harmful substances. Sea area covered includes Baltic Sea (territorial waters and economic Zones between Poland and Kaliningrad Region) and Vistula lagoon. Signed on 6.12.2010.

The Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Mauritius Republic passed an agreement on maritime search and rescue, establishing cooperation between the different authorities. This arrangement especially defines the standard operating procedures for the Rescue Coordination Centres (RCCs), particularly the determination of the responsible RCCs, the communication about the search areas, the transferring of SAR coordination responsibility or the liaison during a SAR operation. This agreement also deals with the use of the different SAR assets belonging to the two Parties and the SAR operational expenses.

The Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Government of the French Republic, recognising the importance of cooperation in maritime Search and Rescue, 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.

SAR MEDOCC is a technical agreement between France, Spain and Italy on SAR organization in Western Mediterranean Sea and adjacent areas, in force since 1972. It aims at coordinating the SAR organizations of the three contracting parties regarding aircrafts in distress, according to Chicago convention on International Civil Aviation, and, as far as possible, safety of life at sea or ashore. Morocco takes part as an observer.