The EROCIPS Project

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The EROCIPS Project
MSUO Project Fair, Antwerp June 2007

• By Mel Parker
• EROCIPS Project Manager

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Emergency Response to Coastal Oil, Chemical and
Inert Pollution from ShippingEROCIPS
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Community Initiative Programme INTERREG IIIB -
Atlantic Area

• PRIORITY B
• Developing transport systems with a view to
  ensuring sustainable mobility and improving
  access to the information society

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The goal of EROCIPS is to provide the
necessary information to responders and decision
makers involved in shoreline counter pollution
operations following a shipping incident.
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Project Area
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Partners of the Project

• Conselleria de Pesca y Asuntos Maritimos
• Devon Wildlife Trust
• Dorset County Council
• Environment and Heritage Service Northern
  Ireland
• HIDROMOD
• INTECMAR
• Instituto Superior Técnico
• Pembrokeshire County Council

• Devon County Council - Lead
• CETMAR
• CIIMAR
• Conseil Régional dAquitaine
• Conseil Régional Bretagne
• Conseil Régional Pays de la Loire
• Conseil Régional de Poitou -Charentes
• Conselleria de Medio Ambiente- MeteoGalicia

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EROCIPS Objectives

• Develop common tools and techniques for
  identifying the baseline conditions and
  categorising issues of risk.
• Identify all information needed to effectively
  plan for a response.
• Develop common protocols for dealing with coastal
  pollution incidents, which are then transferable
  across Europe.
• To link up with other spatial planning frameworks
  to ensure a co-ordinated and effective response.

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EROCIPS Work Packages

• Pollution Threats
• Response Information
• Counter Pollution Resources
• Training Information
• Pollution Monitoring
• Management Information
• Environmental Monitoring
• Dissemination of Project Outcomes

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Work Package 1 Pollution Threats

• Review contingency plans in the Atlantic Area
• Includes a report containing recommendations for
  future best practice
• Risk assessment
• Analyses shipping movements and associated port
  operations, cargo types, port facilities
• Coastal inventory database
• Review past experience
• Database of relevant past incidents and lessons
  learnt from them has been compiled

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Work Package 2 Response Information

• GIS map of EROCIPS shoreline types matched to
  recommended clean up techniques
• Boom/ barrage deployment plans to protect more
  sensitive environmental sites
• Storage of oil/chemical waste

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Work Package 3 Counter Pollution Resources

• Identify and log equipment, technology, skills,
  contractors, and volunteers available in each
  region
• Manual on managing volunteers during an incident

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Work Package 4 Training Information

• Guidance for responders
• Training packages

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Work Package 5 Pollution Trajectory and Fate
modelling

• Pilot models Galicia and Dorset
• Guidance on use of computer models for oil spill
  response management

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Work Package 6 Management Information

• Publicity material for informing stakeholders
• Develop the use of shoreline response management
  systems

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Work Package 7 Environmental Monitoring

• Protocols for assessing pollution levels
• before, during and after pollution incidents

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Work Package 8 Dissemination of Project
outcomes

• Communication and Dissemination Strategy
• EROCIPS website www.erocips.org
• Leaflets, booklets and posters
• National conferences in Partner countries
  (including seminars)
• Engagement of wider European and International
  community

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EROCIPS Budget

• Total Project Budget of 6,060,179.91
• 56.98 ERDF Contribution (Intervention rate)
• 4.2 Public National Funding (e.g. DCLG)
• 0.37 Public Regional Funding (e.g. Government
  Agencies working at a regional level)
• 3.84 Public Funding through Local Partners
  (Universities, Local Authorities, Local
  Organisations)
• 34.61 Partners match funding (public and
  private)

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How funding has helped achieve Project objectives

• Paid for nearly 60 of everything achieved
  through EROCIPS
• Enabled research and modelling development
• Enabled contracting in of expertise where
  necessary
• Covered cost of transnational meetings to support
  the Partnership and make Project decisions
• Funded staff to co-ordinate and carry out much
  needed Project work

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• Long term effectiveness of the Project will
  depend on
• Partner organisations and regions
• Other regions
• Ensuring maximum adoption of EROCIPS principles
  and outputs
• Development of an Exit Strategy to ensure
• databases, models and other outputs must be
  maintained and kept up to date
• wide dissemination of findings and reports
• use of project outputs on a wider scale

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• Lessons to be learnt from the EROCIPS Project
• Strong relationships between Partners
• High standard of reports and outputs produced
• Successful demonstration of best practice
• Benefits to the participating Partners is more
  than the sum of the pieces of work that they
  contributed

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• Looking to the future
• EROCIPS 2?