How MEMAC deals with incidents

Upon receiving notification of an oil spill incident from any source, the following steps are taken immediately:

• Verification of the incident.
• Collect complete data about the incident.
• Notifying and transmission of all data to all Member States.
• Notifying local, regional and international private sectors working in the field of combating marine pollution to be on standby in case of necessity
• Continuous exchange of incident data and follow-up.
• Updated information about the incident status is continuously provided to all Member States
• Legal and technical advice is continuously provided to the Member States
• Oil Spill Trajectory Model is used for early prediction
• In case of any assistance in needed, MEMAC liaises with the Member States as well as with other regional and international firms.
• A record about the incident is kept for studying and as a lesson to be learnt for future avoidance of any similar incident.