Baku to host first training on international ecological convention

Baku will host the first training at MARPOL (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships), within the framework of the SASEPOL project on October 18-22, 2010, News Armenia reports, citing the head of SASEPOL Falko Joseph Sellner.

He said that the team responsible for the realization of MARPOL plans to hold a five-day training session aimed at the ratification, implementation and function of MARPOL convention. There are two trainings scheduled for 2010. The first is planned for direct and indirect beneficiaries of SASEPOL (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey).

Sellner also noted that officials from national naval administrations, heads of ports and naval education centers of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine were invited. Officials from the Black Sea Commission, TRACECA and indirect beneficiaries – Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey - will be at the training. They will participate at 16 lectures of such specialists as Fernando Pardo, Jack O’Sallivan and Anna Shotadze.

The lectures will concern sea pollution, and the physical and chemical characteristics of the basic substances that pollute the sea.

SASEPOL is a project financed by EU to teh tune of 3.4 million euro. It helps beneficiaries in development of naval transport, the joint realization of security policy, ecology, and the prevention of pollution.