IX Venice Regional Seapower Symposium of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Venice, 16 th -19 th October 2012

1. IX Venice Regional Seapower Symposium of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Venice, 16th-19th October 2012 Vice Admiral (ITCG) Pierluigi CACIOPPOCommandant of the Italian Coast Guard Interagency domain, challenges and opportunities:a Coast Guard perspective

2. SUMMARY • the development of the Integrated Maritime Policy within the policies of the European Union • the implementation of the VTMIS platform • interagency functions connecting Coast Guard services and Navies • conclusions

3. Italian Coast Guard primary sectors • search and rescue at sea (including that related to illegal immigration) • safety of navigation • technological innovation and development of new monitoring and control systems addressed to vessel and fishery traffic • maritime security • marine environment protection

4. EU Commission has adopted 3 ‘horizontal’ instruments: • maritime spatial planning • maritime surveillance system • network for the collection of data and information on the marine environment

5. Under the responsibility of each Member State, maritime surveillance is performed by different administrations which, operating in a coordinated and interagency manner, can better succeed – through data and information exchange – in meeting their own institutional aims

6. The EU Commission provides for the implementation of a wide, cross-sector and cross-border cooperation, towards an interoperability of all the systems allowing localization, identification and tracking of vessels within the sea basins of interest of the European Union, in order to support synergies in the above-mentioned sectorial activities, respecting the responsibilities of each administration

7. The EU Commission has pointed out the principles on which an integration policy of maritime surveillance can be built: • connecting sectorial user communities • developing a cooperative environment aimed at the future interoperability • exchange of information between civilian and military authorities • sharing of specific rules

8. Outcome: from the need to know concept to the need and responsibility to share

9. “CISE” Common Information SharingEnvironment Targetto integrate existing systems as well as to allow each concerned Administration to access to those information and data which are relevant for their missions at sea

10. ITCG has been providing its contribution taking into strict consideration its own specific duties, which include directly 4 out of the 7 user communities identified by EU (safety/security, vigilance and control of fisheries, marine environment, law enforcement) and further 2 in a supporting role (defence, border control)

11. Considerable amounts of funds have already been allotted in the EU Member States with the purpose of creating local or regional consolidated networks for data exchange, and – as the CISE roadmap makes clear – • these resources cannot be nullified

12. SafeSeaNet is a consolidated European backbone for data and information exchange, made also available to the other sectorial communities operating in the field of maritime surveillance

13. Ministry of infrastructure and transport – by Italian Coast Guard - has developed a technological platform named Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information System – VTMIS which is fed with data and information provided by the following systems: VTS (Vessel Traffic Services): non-cooperative system, aimed at providing a detailed image of local and transiting maritime traffic, so as to enhance safeguard of maritime safety in defined areas. Co-funded by the European Union AIS (Automatic Identification System): cooperative system enabling automatic transmission of ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore information for reporting and monitoring

14. LRIT (Long-Range Identification and Tracking): vessel reporting system via satellite, allowing to receive data about identity, position and time-stamp of a vessel in international navigation • VMS (Vessel Monitoring System): global satellite system intended to allow reporting of positions and on-going activities by fishing vessels • SSAS (Ship Security Alert System): global alert satellite system allowing merchant vessels to report security events to their respective Administration

15. PMIS (Port Management Information System): system for automation of port formalities management in Italian ports, capable of relaying the information gathered to EMSA through SafeSeaNet; • CleanSeaNet: system based upon satellite observation, aimed at detecting and monitoring oil slicks.

16. VTMIS platform are already made available to the Italian Navy as well as to the other Agencies responsible for National defense and public security, in accordance with the Legislative Decree 196/2005 (implementation of EU Directive 2002/59/CE) concurring to provide an accurate framework of maritime surveillance for the safeguard of National interests

17. Security: “the combination of preventive measures aimed at protecting maritime transport and port facilities against the threats of illicit and intentional acts”(Reg.725/2004/CE) • Italian Coast Guard is the national point of contact and coordination authority for port and ship security, according to I.M.O. and E.U. regulations: • SOLAS Convention del 1974, cap. XI • International Ship and Port Security (ISPS Code) • Reg. 725/2004/CE • Directive 2005/65/CE

18. The Regional Mediterranean AIS System (MAREΣ): since 2009 has been allowing data and information exchange among the maritime administrations of Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, France, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the European Maritime safety Agency (EMSA) • This network allows a flow of information about up to 20,000 tracks of merchant (SOLAS) and fishing vessels • Such an exchange of data - mandatory as per EU Directive 2002/59/EC - between EU MS’s and MAREΣ System is the channel for the Mediterranean Sea information forwarding within the European SafeSeaNet

19. Italian Coast Guard itself is an interagency reality being the operational agency of 4 distinct sectorial communities • Italian Coast Guard has managed to develop a number of systems capable to correlate data and information (validated and certified) within a single operations’ centre at the Italian Coast Guard Headquarters in Rome, where a broad and effective maritime traffic image is generated for the benefit of the shipping, fishery and environment communities operating at sea

20. Implementation of instruments capable to better manage the data concerning merchant vessels transiting in Italian harbors • Such instruments are of the greatest importance for a fast and efficient management of all the administrative procedures taking place in the Italian harbors, where data between ships and shore authorities are increasingly being exchanged by means of modern digital systems

21. These capabilities are going to be a qualifying point for the Italian Coast Guard, which will be able to collect detailed information about vessels calling at Italian ports and their cargoes to be made available for use by all the stakeholders involved both within maritime surveillance and commercial management of ports

22. What is the Coast Guard expecting for the future?

23. A system, like the one described today, cannot be successful unless it is capable to link and interoperate with equivalent systems pertaining to other communities, within an environment of shared and acquainted reciprocity • Interagency domain has more and more proved to be not only a need, but even an opportunity to deal with the great challenges of the future: • Climate changes • Energy challenges • Immigrant flows • Asymmetric threats

24. The Italian Coast Guard is ready to provide its own contribution

25. IX Venice Regional Seapower Symposium of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Venice, 16th-19th October 2012 Vice Admiral (ITCG) Pierluigi CACIOPPOCommandant of the Italian Coast Guard Interagency domain, challenges and opportunities:a Coast Guard perspective