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Helsinki Commission - HELCOM
・The Helsinki Commission, or HELCOM, works to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental co-operation between Denmark, Estonia, the European Community, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.
・Norway participates in the "AIS co-operation"
Copenhagen Declaration
・Ministerial meeting 10 september 2001 decided to Enhance the use of AIS by
- Establish national AIS based monitoring systems before 1 July 2005.
- Establish a common Baltic Sea monitoring system, based on and with acces to all national AIS systems.
- Prepare reliable statistics on ships traffic in the Baltic Sea (based on AIS).
AIS Expert Working Group
・A Working Group was established to
- Ensure mutual support and exchange of information and experiences
- Ensure that the national AIS systems can be linked to each other
- Propose technical solutions
- Agree on information to be recorded and statistics to be produced
- Consider the legal framework
Work schedule
Applications
・Statistics on ships traffic
・Pollution combating
・International Ship and Port security (ISPS)
・SAR
・Traffic management
・Port state control
・EU HAZMAT (=>Safe Sea Net)
・Ice Breaker service
・Port Authorities (filtered on destination)
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