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Specific Project

MERRAC has been carried out to fulfill NOWPAP/4: Development of Effective Measures for Regional Cooperation in Marine Pollution Preparedness and Response, which is one of the five priorities decided by the NOWPAP Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) for implementation of the NOWPAP Action Plan. In order to facilitate designated mandates of MERRAC, several specific projects have been organized, maintained and entitled as follows;

Period	Title of project	Leading countries
2002-2004	Sensitivity Mapping	Japan
2002-2005	Oil Dispersant	Russia
2002-2004	Shoreline Clean-up	China
2002-2007	Regional Oil Spill Prediction Model	Korea
2005-2006	Regional Mapping of Vulnerable Resources	Japan
2005-2009	Minimum Level of Preparedness	China and Russia
2008-2009	HNS Response Operation Guidelines	China and Russia
2008-2010	HNS Database	Korea
2008-2009	HNS Training Manual	Japan
2007-2011	Regional Report on HNS Preparedness and Response	All members and MERRAC
2010-2013	Legislations and Practice on Marine Pollution Damage Civil Liability and Compensation	China
2010-2014	Development of the Practical Assistance Procedure and System Under the NOWPAP Regional Oil and HNS Spill Contingency Plan	MERRAC
2012-2014	Development of the Manual on Conduction of Oil Spill Response Operational Exercise	Russia and China
2012-2014	Development of Pamphlet on HNS Database and Spill Response in the NOWPAP Region	MERRAC
2014-2016	Update of DB on oil and HNS spill response equipment and experts	MERRAC
2014-2016	Online pollution reporting system (POLREP)	MERRAC
2014-2017	Risk assessment of oil spill incident: Likelihood analysis (Of publishing)	MERRAC
2016-2017	Development of MERRAC information system based on the Web GIS	MERRAC
2016-2017	Development of information sharing platform on oil and HNS spills in the NOWPAP region	MERRAC
2016-2017	Development of a technical report on oiled wildlife response in the NOWPAP region	MERRAC
2018-2019	Development of guidelines on the assessment of oil spill response capability in the NOWPAP region	China
2018-2019	Development of regional overview on the use of unmanned aircraft during marine pollution response in the NOWPAP region	China
2018-2019	Assessment of oil spill emergency preparedness and response for the offshore platform in the NOWPAP region	Russia

Expert groups have been formed to implement each MERRAC Specific Project. The NOWPAP members officially nominated their national experts that have profound knowledge to support MERRAC Specific Projects. The expert groups are composed of four experts from each country and the expert of the leading country generally manages the projects in cooperation with other national experts and MERRAC secretariat. MERRAC Specific Projects have covered relevant issues concerning regional cooperative measures to prevention of, prepare for and respond to marine pollution.

▲Technical report on oiled wildlife response in the NOWPAP region (2016-2017)

The technical reports are downloadable. Please click here to download.

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