The impacts, drivers and implementation of recent changes in European
legislation and policy arising from recent spill experiences
Session Chair: Toby Stone, Head of Counter Pollution Response, Maritime & Coastguard Agency, UK
Command and Control - The lessons of hard won experience, are they a model for
others to follow?
(no pdf download available)
Robin Middleton, Secretary of State's Representative for Salvage & Intervention (SOSREP), UK
Review of the international compensation regime in light of recent incidents
Session Chair: Joe Nichols, Deputy Director, International Oil Pollution
Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds), UK
Introduction of HNS Conventions
John Wren, Coordinator for the IMO Group on the implementation of the HNS
Convention and Shipping Policy for Department for Transport, UK
Options in prevention and risk minimisation, considering the pollution threat
from sunken wreck's, the benefits from salvors action and in ship construction
techniques
Session Chair: Dr Michel Girin, Director, CEDRE (Centre de documentation de
recherche etd'exp
érimentations sur les pollutions accidentelles des eaux), France
Singapore Strait - Risk management & response preparedness in one of the world's busiest ports
(no pdf download available)
Captain M Segar, Director (Port) / Port Master, Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore, Singapore
Modern surveillance technology, on-site shoreline surveys and LNG spills
Session Chair: Chris Morris, General Secretary, International Petroleum Industry
Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), UK
Recovery of fuel at extreme depths following the Prestige Spill
(no pdf download available)
Kåre Mollerhagen, Managing Director, MARKLEEN, AS, Norway
Long term impacts, local considerations and post spill studies
Session Chair: Tosh Moller, Managing Director, International Tanker Owners
Pollution Federation Ltd (ITOPF), UK
A review of studies of the evironmental effects of the Haven incident off Genoa
in April 1991
(no pdf download available)
E Amato, Senior Scientist, ICRAM, Italy Quantitive risk assessment on
contaminated land
Legislation and policy
Prevention and risk minimisation
Operational respose issues
Environmental impact and recovery
EMSA - The role of the European Maritime Safety Agency
The ISM code and its impact on the prosecutions during shipboard pollution
incidents
The role of P&I Clubs in raising shipping standards
Compensation regime developments
Sunken wrecks - to remove the oil or not?
How the salvor can reduce shipowner risk and exposure and liability
Vessel management issues in the Turkish Strait
Use of surveillance technology to support response decision making and impact
assessment
Shoreline surveys and clean up in a remote coastal environment
Overview of long term impacts of oil spill incidents
Determining the priorities for post spill studies
