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Response evaluation

Sea Alarm aims to learn lessons from each incident and work with nationally involved parties to evaluate the response. The evaluation process should involve those who locally led the operation, individuals and organisations that were involved in the spill, the scientists that collected and analysed data, as well as representatives from the national authority and those professional responders who were active during the incident. Sea Alarm encourages key national organisation to organise a seminar or workshop within one year after an oiled wildlife response has been demobilized and would be available to lead the discussions as an independent and impartial facilitator.

Claims management

November 2004, the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (www.iopcfund.org) has published their new Claims Manual (see NEWS). This manual now explicitly includes oiled wildlife response as an activity that could be compensated for under the rules of the convention. Sea Alarm can provide advice or assistance to those parties that have been involved in a centrally coordinated professional oiled wildlife response, as how to put together a successful claim.
Example: Sea Alarm has assisted ngo's in Belgium to put together a successful claim in the aftermath of the Tricolor wildlife response in Belgium (2003).