Tipo de ejercicio
Full-scale exercise
Acción probada
Equipment deployment
Communication
Coordination
Modelling
Protocol compliance
Tipo de incidente
Spill
Coastal
Open-sea
Organización
Latvian Coast Guard Service
Ventspills, Latvia
The main objectives of this exercise were to test PolRep alert procedures with all maritime emergency communication points of the Baltic Sea countries and the European Commission, assistance request, as well as national alert procedures, to verify cooperation ability, response capability and efficiency of the Baltic Sea response fleet in a unified combating operation, to test and train staff operations of the Baltic response fleet combating units and combating equipment on board the vessels, and, in addition, to exercise national shoreline response capability, test national wildlife response alert procedures and procedures of granting place of refuge.
Marine/coastal environments
International
National
English
Documentación ejercicios
HELCOM BALEX DELTA Exercise 2014
Dissemination materials
The exercise was carried out within the framework of the Helsinki Convention (contracting parties are Denmark,Estonia, EU, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Russia). Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and EMSA took part in the exercise. Objective of the exercise: to test PolRep alert procedures with all maritime emergency communication points of the Baltic Sea countries and the European Commission, assistance request, as well as national alert procedures.
2014
English
HELCOM BALEX DELTA Exercise 2014_Video
Multimedia
Hosted by Latvia, in June 2014 the Baltic coastal countries again rehearsed the joint response to a major pollution incident at sea. The HELCOM Balex Delta tests in practice (at sea) the procedures documented in the HELCOM Response Manual and whether the operational response capability of the participating states meet the international commitments in the 1992 Helsinki Convention. The general objective of the exercises is to ensure that any coastal country is able to lead a major international response operation.
2014
English
Helcom List of Exercises
Services/Tools
List of exercises carried out by Helcom contracting parties since 1990.
2022
English
Drills and Exercises Annual Report 2014
Report
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.
2015
English