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         AGREEMENT ON REGIONAL COOPERATION IN COMBATING POLLUTION OF
           THE SOUTH-EAST PACIFIC BY HYDROCARBONS OR OTHER HARMFUL
                      SUBSTANCES IN CASES OF EMERGENCY

Objective
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       To protect the coastal States and marine ecosystem against
pollution of the South-East Pacific by oil and other harmful
substances in cases of emergency.

Summary of provisions
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       (a)   The parties to combine their efforts in taking the
necessary measures to neutralize or control harmful effects when the
marine environment is threatened (art. I);

       (b)   The parties to maintain and promote their contingency
plans and programmes aimed at combating marine pollution by oil and
other harmful substances (art. IV);

       (c)   The parties to carry out monitoring activities (art. V)
and cooperate in salvaging harmful substances (art. VI);

       (d)   The parties to exchange information regarding their
competent national authorities for combating pollution, assistance
programmes or measures to combat pollution and the development of
related research programmes (art. VII);

       (e)   The parties to coordinate the use of their means of
communication and issue instructions for the captains of ships and
the pilots of aircraft to report, on the basis of the guidelines
contained in the annex to the Agreement, the presence,
characteristics and extent of oil slicks and other harmful
substances observed in the area (art. IX);

       (f)   Parties faced with an emergency to make the necessary
assessment, adopt all appropriate measures to avert or reduce the
effects of the pollution, inform all other parties involved and
report thereon (art. X);

       (g)   The parties designate the Permanent Mission for the South
Pacific as secretariat for the Agreement (art. XIII).

Membership
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       Open to States bordering the South-East Pacific.

       Date of adoption              12.11.1981
       Place of adoption             Lima, Peru
       Date of entry into force      14. 7.1986
       Language                      Spanish
       Depositary                    Permanent Commission for the
                                     South Pacific

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

       Chile                             14. 7.1986
       Colombia                          14. 7.1986
       Ecuador                           14. 7.1986
       Panama                            21. 9.1986
       Peru                              18. 4.1989

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