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PROTOCOL CONCERNING REGIONAL COOPERATION IN COMBATING POLLUTION  
   BY OIL AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES IN CASES OF EMERGENCY*

Objective
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     To enhance on a national and regional basis the existing
measures for responding to pollution emergencies.

Summary of provisions
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     (a)  The parties shall cooperate in maintaining and promoting
their contingency plans and means for combating pollution in the
area and protecting the coastline and related interests (art. II);

     (b)  A Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre established (art.
III);

     (c)  Each contracting State to inform other contracting States
and the Centre of its laws, marine emergency contingency plans and
appropriate authority, and of existing and new technical
developments relating to marine emergency response, research and
developments in these areas and their results, as well as the
receipt of a report of a marine emergency (arts. V-VIII);

     (d)  Any contracting State faced with a marine emergency to
take appropriate measures to combat pollution, inform the other
States of the measures it has taken or intends to take, make an
assessment of the nature and extent of the marine emergency and
determine the necessary and appropriate action to be taken (art. X);

     (e)  Any contracting State may call for assistance from the
others and from the Centre (art. XI);

     (f)  Each contracting State to establish and maintain an
appropriate authority to carry out its obligations under this
Protocol (art. XII).

Membership
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     Open to the States invited as participants to the Kuwait
Conference, held from 15 to 23 April, 1978.     

     Date of adoption           24. 4.1978
     Place of adoption          Kuwait, Kuwait
     Date of entry into force   1. 7.1979
     Languages                  Arabic, English, Persian
     Depositary                 Kuwait

     Participant                Entry into force
     -----------                ----------------

     Bahrain                     1. 7.1979
     Iran, Islamic
       Republic of               1. 6.1980
     Iraq                        1. 7.1979
     Kuwait                      1. 7.1979
     Oman                        1. 7.1979
     Qatar                       1. 7.1979
     Saudi Arabia               26. 3.1982
     United Arab Emirates        1. 3.1980

               *    Protocol to the Kuwait Regional Convention for
Cooperation on the Protection of the Marine Environment from
Pollution.

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