In the context of EU financed project BCSEA II, EMSA has undertaken the organisation of an oil pollution response exercise which took place from 15 to 17 September 2015 in Türkiye. Participants from the BCSEA II, SAFEMED V and IPA project implemented by the Agency were invited to attend.

The 3-day oil pollution response exercise aimed to familiarise participants with the theoretical and practical aspects of an oil pollution response operation including the use of oil pollution response equipment and to enhance the cooperation between the EMSA and national oil pollution response means. In this perspective EMSA oil spill response vessel Aktea II took part to the exercise and the EAS equipment system from the EMSA stockpile in Varna, Bulgaria was deployed.