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    PROTOCOL CONCERNING COOPERATION IN COMBATING POLLUTION
            EMERGENCIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC REGION

Objective
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     To enhance cooperation among the Parties to protect the South
Pacific Region from threats and effects of pollution incidents.

Summary of provisions
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     The Parties agreed to:

     (a)  Cooperate in taking all necessary measures for the
protection of the South Pacific Region from the threat and effects
of pollution incidents (art. 3, para. 1);

     (b)  Establish and maintain or ensure the establishment and
maintenance of the means of preventing and combating pollution
incidents, and reducing the risk thereof.  Such means shall include
the enactment, as necessary, of relevant legislation, the
preparation of contingency plans, the development and strengthening
of the capability to respond to pollution incidents and the
designation of a national authority responsible for the
implementation of the Protocol (art. 3, para. 2);

     (c)  Periodically exchange with other Parties current
information relating to the implementation of this Protocol,
including the identification of the officials charged with carrying
out the activities covered by it and information laws, institutions
procedures aimed at combating marine pollution (art. 4);

     (d)  Establish appropriate procedures to ensure that
information regarding pollution incidents is reported as rapidly as
possible (art. 5, para. 1);

     (e)  In the event of receiving a report regarding a pollution
incident, promptly inform all other Parties whose interests are
likely to be affected by such incident, the flag State of any vessel
involved in it and the competent international organizations (art.
5, para. 2);

     (f)  Each Party requiring assistance to deal with a pollution
incident may request the assistance of other Parties (art. 6, para.
1).

Membership
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     Open to the Parties to the 1986 Convention for the Protection
of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific
Region.

     Date of adoption               25.11.1986
     Place of adoption              Noumea, New Caledonia
     Date of entry into force       18. 8.1990
     Languages                      English, French
     Depositary                     South Pacific Bureau for
                                    Economic Cooperation

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

     Australia                          18. 8.1990
     Cook Islands                       18. 8.1990
     Federated States
       of Micronesia                    18. 8.1990
     Fiji                               18. 8.1990
     France                             18. 8.1990
     Marshall Islands                   18. 8.1990
     New Zealand                        18. 8.1990
     Papua New Guinea                   18. 8.1990
     Solomon Islands                    18. 8.1990
     Western Samoa                      18. 8.1990

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