Exercise MALTEX 2014

The exercise was organised by the Maltese Ministry of Transport, Ports and Yachting Directorate. It was a national exercise in conjunction with a notification exercise the day before. The main purpose of this exercise was to: - train Member State’s command and communication system and pollution response operations, practical use of recovery equipment and cooperation of participating units, - test the established mobilisation procedures between ERCC, MALTA, EMSA and EMSA contractors(Falzon and Tankship) to request the assistance by EMSA contracted vessel.

To achieve the level of performance for pollution response required by the EMSA, the agency performs regular training, drills, Equipment Condition Tests (ECTs) and exercises. This report summarises the drills and exercises carried out in 2014.