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SASEP LTHE LIFE BUOYA quarterly newsletter published by the project Development of Security Management and Maritime Safety and Ship Pollution Prevention for theBlack Sea and Caspian Sea (SASEPOL) An EU-funded Regional TRACECA Project, EuropeAid/127221/C/SER/Multi

econd SASEPOL Regionalorking Group and Steeringommittee Meeting inrussels, 28 to 29 September,

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epresentatives of the EuropeanCommission, Project ConsultantR(Mott MacDonald, Ramboll, Milieu

Tethys Consulting), TRACECA, Blacka Commission, and those of direct andd i r e c t p r o j e c t b e n e f i c i a r i e szerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan,rkmenistan, Ukraine, Bulgaria,mania, and Turkey) met in Brussels,two consecutive days (28th and 29th

ptember, 2010) in order to assess theogress achieved by the SASEPOLoject and to discuss and to set the

undation for future TRACECA regionaltiatives in the field of maritime safety,curity and ship pollution prevention.

The meeting was opened by Mr. Jean-uis Ville, Head of Unit of the EuropeAid-operation Office, who emphasized theportance of the SASEPOL project to the

and appreciated the continuous effortsde by the beneficiary countries and theer major stakeholders (TRACECA, Blacka Commission and the indirectneficiaries).

Presentations were then delivered by DGOVE on EU policy concerning maritimeety and security, and by SASEPOL key

perts introducing the Terms of Referencethe National and Regional Working

oups. The Black Sea Commissionhlighted recent achievements such assignature of a landmark Memorandum ofderstanding with the Internationalritime Organization and emphasized thenificance of regional cooperation.

SASEPOL direct and indirectbeneficiaries reported on the progressachieved in the field of maritime safetyand security and pollution prevention, aswell as on specific national and regionalissues of individual or joint concern.Specifically, representatives of SASEPOLindirect beneficiaries (Bulgaria, Romania,and Turkey) emphasised their intent tobecome more involved in the projectactivities and offered their specificexpertise on a number of relevant nationaland regional issues.

Most significantly, the participants

agreed and signed a concludingmemorandum, outlining the cornerstonesof future inter-regional cooperation, whichis to be defined in a dedicated Action Planunder the TRACECA umbrella; given theadvanced state of institutionalization of theRegional Working Group, IMO will beinvited to future meetings as observer.

The next Regional Working Groupmeeting is scheduled to take place inIstanbul (Turkey) on 1-2 February 2011.

NEWS Section

Available on the SASEPOL website:Port Reception Facilities Ship Waste

Handling Procedures, separate reports onOdessa, Baku and Batumi (Aktau andTurkmenbashi forthcoming);

Report on SASEPOL/MARPOL/SOLAS/ISPS/PSCMoUs Transposition Plans for

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan,Turkmenistan and Ukraine;

Report on the RWG meeting in

Trainings Plan and Trainings reports,

Forthcoming and under implementation:Reports on ISPS;

eports on VIMSAS operational

Reports on the institutional assessment

TRACECA (Regional) Action Plan;

Please contact office@sasepol.eu forfurther information or check for updates onour website www.sasepol.eu

Brussels;trainings material.

Rframeworks;

of maritime institutions;

Photo: Participants to the Second SASEPOL Regional Working Group andSteering Committee Meeting, September 2010

Issue 1, October 2010

s project is funded by the European Union This project is implemented by Mott MacDonald, Ramboll, Milieu and Tethys Consulting

The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

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A quarterly newsletter published by the project Development of Security Management and Maritime Safety and Ship Pollution Prevention for theBlack Sea and Caspian Sea (SASEPOL) An EU-funded Regional TRACECA Project, EuropeAid/127221/C/SER/Multi

ress conference on theuropean Commission'sRACECA Programme inaku (Azerbaijan)

n an effort to promote EuropeanCommission's programmes in thetransport sector for the TRACECAgion (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia,zakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,jikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova,raine, Bulgaria, Romania, andrkey), the SASEPOL project teamganized a press conference in Bakuzerbaijan), on 21st October 2010.

The speakers included Mr. Akifstafayev, Azerbaijan's Nationalcretary of the TRACECA programme;

. Jean-Louis Lavroff, Counsellor of theC Delegation to the Republic oferbaijan and Captain John stergaard,SEPOL Key Expert.

n addition to disseminating generalormation about the TRACECAansport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-a) programme, the speakers informedout the EU maritime policy, the EU past,rrent and future assistance packagesAzerbaijan and the wider region, and

ecifically on the SASEPOL activities ine direct beneficiary countrieserbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan,

rkmenistan, and Ukraine.

The delegates from the pressluded representatives of: AZTV

zerbaijan national television), Salamws, Trend

ormation Agency, SIA, INTERFAXerbaijan, APA INFORMASIA,ADINFORM, Palitra, Ria Novosti,

GO Eco Union, and Space (privateevision station in Azerbaijan).

A video account of the pressconference was included in the dailynews by the national television AzTV,and there were several other printedand electronic briefings in other media,such as:

www.sia.az

www.525.az

www.hellenicshippingnews.com

www.news.az

www.oananews.org

www.searates.com

www.today.az

Additional information is available at:www.sasepol.eu

www.seanews.com.tr

SASEP LTHE LIFEBUOY

Calendar of Events: November

2010 February 2011.

8-12 November 2010: MARPOL

73/78: How to do it?; Training in Astana(Kazakhstan);

15 19 November 2010:

Implementation and enforcement

of the International Safety

Management Code; Training in

Batumi (Georgia)

6 10 December 2010: IMO

Conventions and their national

implementation, including

VIMSAS;

Training in Astana (Kazakhstan);

rainings on PSC in January 2011;

Next RWG meeting in Istanbul, 1-2

Feb 2011.

More information at

T

www.sasepol.eu

www.traceca-programme.eu