MEDIPOLEX 04

Type of exercise
Table-top exercise
Action tested
Communication
Type of incident
Spill
Open-sea
Organisation

REMPEC

Remote (online)

The objectives of this exercise were to test the functioning of communication systems and the regional mechanism for mutual assistance between Contracting Parties to the Emergency Protocol to the Barcelona Convention and between REMPEC and national authorities responsible for accidental marine pollution response , to test communications between REMPEC and AMC's (MPRESS), concerning transmission of meteorological and oceanographic data, as well as weather forecasts, to practice the use of POLREP, for exchanging information when pollution of the sea has occurred or when a threat of such pollution is present, to test the effectiveness of the regional mechanism for the alerting of experts participating in the Mediterranean Assistance Unit (MAU) in relation to HNS pollution, to obtain (if possible) computer-generated forecasts of movement of drifting packages on the sea surface.

Marine/coastal environments
International
Regional
English

Exercises documentation

Regional Alert/Communication Exercise MEDIPOLEX 04

Report
REMPEC
The present report describes the MEDIPOLEX exercise taken in 2004 by REMPEC. The objectives of the MEDIPOLEX exercise were 1) to test the functioning of communication systems and the regional mechanism for mutual assistance between Contracting Parties to the Emergency Protocol to the Barcelona Convention and between REMPEC and national authorities responsible for accidental marine pollution response, and 2) to practice the use of POLREP foe exchanging information.
2004
English