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Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Annual Meeting of the Informal Working Group on Aerial Surveillance Stockholm/Skavsta airport, 22-23 March 2018 IWGAS 2018 Document title Final report

1 Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Annual Meeting of the Informal Working Group on Aerial Surveillance Stockholm/Skavsta airport, March 2018 IWGAS 2018 Document title Final report of the Mini CEPCO North 2017 Code 4-1 Category INF Agenda Item 4 - CEPCO operations in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Submission date Submitted by Secretariat Reference Background The attached document contains the Final Report from Mini CEPCO North Action requested The Meeting is invited to take note of the report. Page 1 of 1

1 (7) Date Our reference 2017-10-17 Lars-Erik Svärd Registration No Final Report Mini-CEPCO 2017-10-17 POSTAL ADDRESS VISITING ADDRESS PHONE FAX E-MAIL AND INTERNET Swedish

2 1 (7) Date Our reference Lars-Erik Svärd Registration No Final Report Mini-CEPCO POSTAL ADDRESS VISITING ADDRESS PHONE FAX AND INTERNET Swedish Coast Guard Flight division Box 536 SE KARLSKRONA SWEDEN Pilotgången 4 Skavsta Airport NYKÖPING registrator@coastguard.se

3 2 (7) Index Page 1 Mini-CEPCO Summary Objectives of the operation Weather conditions Flights Satellite images Results Conclusions Mailing list 7

4 3 (7) 1 Mini-CEPCO 1.1 Summary HELCOM MiniCEPCO 2/2017 operation took place in the Northern Baltic Sea area 17th of October The operation was coordinated by Swedish Coast Guard flight division. Finland, Sweden and Estonia were planned to participate in the operation. The Estonian surveillance aircraft was grounded due to technical reasons. 4 flights were planned to be flown. EMSA CleanSeaNet satellite service supported the operation with one satellite image. The weather was quite good during the operation. As a conclusion the operation was successful even though no spills were detected Objectives of the operation HELCOM Mini-CEPCO 2/2017 was a joint effort of Finland, Estonia and Sweden. The objective was to continuously patrol the busiest shipping lanes in the Northern Baltic Sea region for more than 12 hours. General objective of any CEPCO-operation is to continuously survey a selected area and to detect and report oil pollution cases in that area. In case of red-handed polluters, all the relevant documentation of the pollution and polluter are gathered and further handed over for law enforcement authorities to impose possible sanctions. One of the main objectives of CEPCO-operations is to further practice international collaboration. During the operation, it is also easy to give extensive flight support for verifying satellite detections of oil. 1.3 Weather conditions The weather was quite good during the operation SLAR Coverage nm on both sides of the aircraft. Visibility good, Wind 5-6 m/s. 1.4 Flights Finland, Sweden and Estonia were planned to participate to operate from their home bases and fly different pre-planned routes for each country, but in the same region, in the Northern Baltic Sea. The Estonian surveillance aircraft was grounded due to technical reasons. This was reported as an answer to the invitation of the mini CEPCO. 4 flights were planned to be flown. The final time schedule for Sweden and Finland as shown below.

5 4 (7) Planned take-off times: Sweden 08:00 UTC ESKN ESKN Finland 09:00 UTC EFTU ESSV Finland 13:00 UTC ESSV EFTU Sweden 16:00 UTC ESKN ESKN Actual flight times: Finland total flight time, day over sea 4:35 Sweden: Day time over sea: 04:55 (Route 1) Night time over sea: 05:10 (Route 2)

6 5 (7) First Swedish flight Second Swedish flight

1.5 Satellite images European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) provided one satellite image for the minicepco, one Radarsat-2. No spills were detected.

7 1.5 Satellite images European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) provided one satellite image for the minicepco, one Radarsat-2. No spills were detected. 6 (7) Radarsat 2, 17 October, 16:31 UTC, Service id: Results Finland: No pollution detected on Route 1 No pollution detected on Route 2 Sweden 1: No detected spills. 116 merchant ships and 14 fishing vessel within SLAR detection range, Sweden 2: No detected spills 1.7 Conclusions The weather conditions this time of year are often bad, but this year the weather was good and the SLAR conditions were very good. The Estonian surveillance aircraft was grounded due to technical reasons. So this autumn it had to be Finland and Sweden. The coverage time in the area was limited to 14:40. But we managed to fly more than more than 12 hours which was one of the objectives with the mini-cepco No spills were found, nor from the airplanes or the satellites. This operation shows our international cooperation works well with planning routines, and separate routes that works for each country. Satellite images and air surveillance works together to a give an overview of a special area as good complements to each other.

8 7 (7) Distribution by Swedish Coast Guard Estonian Police and Border Guard Finnish Border Guard Headquarters Finnish Border Guard, Air Patrol Squadron Swedish Naval Control East CC: Swedish Coast Guard Finnish Border Guard / Air Patrol Squadron HQ lentotoiminta@raja.fi Turku Air Patrol Flight lauri.pakkala@raja.fi West Finland Coast Guard District mrcc@raja.fi Finnish Environment Institute jorma.rytkonen@ymparisto.fi oilduty@ymparisto.fi JRCC Estonia: jrcc@politsei.ee EMSA Sonia.ANTUNES@emsa.europa.eu MaritimeSupportServices@emsa.europa.eu HELCOM laura.meski@helcom.fi

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Response Working Group Riga, Latvia, 8-10 November 2016 RESPONSE 22-2016 Document title Report on Mini CEPCO 2016 Code 9.1-1 Category INF Agenda Item 9.1