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Supportirg trllrrret for the other components provide for the following: the facilities
that the inslitutions must furnish to execute specific projects; the organization of workshops
or other pecial nnetings related to the Action Plan; the granLing of fellowships to train
personnel within or outside the region; the execution of systematic publicity campaigns; and
the inclusion of environrnental protection concepts in educational pnogrammes.
Execution of the Action Plan
With the s.lpport of UNEP, the following activities are being executed under the Aetion
Plan in 1982-1981:
Preparatim of ryccific programme! (by consultants)
- Preparation of an updated review m marine pollution from land baeed sources in the
South-Eaet Paeific region 0rlovember 1982 - February l98l).
- Preparation of a draft programme to rnonitor and control marine pollution by oil, as well as
by domestic, industrial and agricultural sources (November lgBZ - February lggl).
- Preparation of a draft contingency'plan Lo combat oil pollution in case of emerqency
(November 1982 - February l98l).
- Preparation of a draft protocol to control marine pollution from land based sources (June
1982, already accomplished).
- Preparalion of a draf t complementary protocol concerning co-operation in combating
pollution by oil in cases of emergency (December I982).
- Preparation of a draf t programme to carry out baseline ecologieal studies f or the
assessnEnt of freavy metals, some organic materials, and the ;ffect of pollution on
selected marine ecological communities (November 1982 - February l98l).
Wor*ehqe, Meetirqs, eLc.
- Workshop of legal and technical experts to review and revise the draft protocol on marine
pollution from land based sources in the south-East pacific region (Gluito, Ecuador,
27-J0 Sept., L982, already accomplished).
- Workshop of the Consultative Group of legal and technical experls to review and revise
draft programmes and protocols (prepared by consultants) for the South-East pacific
(Guito, Ecuador, ll-15 April, 198]).
- Workshop on intercalibration methods for monitoring marine pollution in the South-East
Pacifie (Lima, Peru, 9 - 14 May I98l).
- Meeting of the General Authority of the south-East pacific Aetion plan (Guito, Ecuador,
June l98f).
Although the Action Plan for the South-East Pacific is only in lhe early phases of
implemenlation, it demonstrates the usef ulness of an integra[ed regional approach to the
management of coastal and marine areas.
REFERE.NCES
CPPS. I98I. Series Seminars and Studies, 2:L-)88.
UNEP-CPPS. 1982. Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Action Plan for the proteclion of
the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the South-East Pacific, Final Act, Lima,
Peru, 9-12 November I98I. UNEp-CppS llc.tLl4.