Argentina’s NavalPrefecture
Ordinance Number.: 8-98 (DPMA)
Regime for the protection of the environment   

• 1.1 PLAN PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES  

 This plan has been conceived to be adjusted to the demands foreseen in the international Agreements, as well as to the directive ones for the developing of this type of plans, appropriately published by the International Maritime Organisation; everything, without forgetting the attention of characteristic details of our national reality whose lack of observance could make fail the best intentions.
 For the achievement of these objectives we will keep especially in mind the following aspects:

 Politics and responsibilities for the execution of the plan.   

 Answer levels according to the emergency type.  

 Co-ordination with other organisms and private companies.   

 The personnel's training and realisation of exercises.  

 Revision and upgrade of the Plan.  

This Plan has as purpose, defining an integrated operation, establish obligations and fix procedures that allow a quick action to act in the emergency situations that can be originated in the load Operations and discharge of hydrocarbons, other noxious and dangerous substances in the shipment jetties in which the company operates in the Dock Sud channel.  
  
For the effects of this Plan, it is defined as CONTAMINATION EMERGENCY, to all the abnormal situations that can cause damage to people, to the natural environment, to the coasts, to the activities of human recreation, to the gathering and fishing, to the housing of the flora and marine fauna or to the resources for the human subsistence and commercial or industrial activities. The situations especially considered are the ones produced by hydrocarbon spills in the area, for their possible incidence in the ecological balance of the place of location of The Terminal and their influence areas.
 
 
We should pay special attention in the first positive action which is the Prevention of Contamination, concept in which the whole prevention of resources politics of the Society are based, which is materialized through an appropriate program consisting in Risks Prevention, the application of the Operational Procedures in each one of the activities and the Preparation for Emergencies.  
  
The world literature about the topic, recommends that if you act in an ordinate and efficient way in front of this type of emergencies, you can decrease to the minimum the contamination and with it its effects to the environment, and in the same way, the economic interests would result less affected.  
 
The Company estimates that the awareness and training of the involved groups recommended by the plan, are the necessary endorsement before the application Authority, so as to obtain an appropriate answer to this type of events.  
   
According to this policy, it is the responsibility of every member of the organization, to fulfill the laws, norms and existing recommendations, mainly in the prevention and environmental protection stages.  
1.2. GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS

• NAUTICAL INCIDENTS: Every catastrophe, event or situation, not concerning its origin, which may cause or threatens to produce an important aquatic hydrocarbon or other polluting substances contamination. Boardings, beached ships, events in which vessels take part, especially tank vessels, resulting explosions of the perforation activities and production of petroleum, and failures in industrial facilities which operate with pollutants are considered emergencies as well.  

• POLLUTANT SPILL CONTROL CENTRE (CECODECON):  It is composed by the people responsible of executing the contingencies plan, who will take the main decisions and will communicate the orders to develop an appropriate response. According to the type of contamination incident, the Centre will be Local, Zonal or National. At national level the centre will be denominated National Pollutant Spill Control Centre (CENACODECON).  

• TECNICAL ADVISER COMISSION (CAT): Composed by a group of multidisciplinary experts, members of the Direction of Environmental Protection and of scientists, technicians and specialists coming from diverse public and private institutions, who advise the Head of the CECODECON in the specific topics of knowledge of each member, regarding the spills control measures to face contamination incidents. The number of members will be in direct relationship with the necessities and they will be summoned by the Head of the CECODECON.
• COMMUNICATION OF THE INCIDENT: Message remitted to the executive organism, by means of the communication systems located on board or from land, informing a contamination incident, or any nautical event that could cause a contamination incident.

• SPILL: To the effects of the present Plan, it means any discharge. escape, evacuation, pumping, glide, emission, emptying or overturn of hydrocarbons or another polluting substance, which represent or may represent a threat for the aquatic means, coast or related interests, which demands emergency measures or another immediate answer.  

• SPILL CONTROL CREW lDOCODECON): it is a team formed by qualified personnel, who are able to do the operations related with the combat, control and cleaning of a contamination incident. This would be a quick mobilisation, highly trained team and with functions clearly defined, for example the unfolding operations of barriers, use of crafts and collecting equipments, dispersant application , coast cleaning, use of bombs, moto generators, tank trucks, etc.  

• HYDROCARBONS: It is understood as the petroleum in all its manifestations, including raw petroleum, fuel oil, mires, oil residuals and refined products; the substances that figure in the Appendix I list of the Annex I of the Agreement MARPOL ~ 73/78, and the Article 801.0101. list, I interjection h.1., of the REGINAVE are also considered.
• EMULSION: It is a dispersion of a liquid in another liquid.  

1. Emulsion of water in petroleum (A in HC): it Contains 30% of water, it is very stable, mainly when the percentage of water is higher.  

• Emulsion of petroleum in water (HC in A): it generally takes place when petroleum dispersants are used. It is formed by a very thin layer of petroleum which covers a great surface extension.  
• CONTAMINATION INCIDENT: It is the fact that causes a hydrocarbon or another polluting substance spill of any volume in water, to require an immediate action in order to eliminate or to reduce their negative effects on the aquatic means, material stuff, health or public well-being.
• SERIOUS CONTAMINATION INCIDENT:  is that contamination incident which demands the unfolding of big means; the total capacity of a country should be used to face it. If the magnitude of the catastrophe exceeds that capacity or if the resources of another state are in danger, it will be necessary to appeal to the combined bilateral, regional or international level action.  

• MEDIUM CONTAMINATION INCIDENT: It is that contamination incident that extends to a certain area exceeding the local action, being the available means suitable or within the range of the executive organism from the jurisdiction, without the unfolding of big means being necessary.  

•  SMALLER CONTAMINATION INCIDENT: It is that contamination incident in a certain point in which a local company or administration can confront with success.
• ADMINISTRATION AND LOGISTICS CHIEF (JAD): it is the chief responsible for the administration and logistic of the operations, and of taking the expenses account that the tasks of spill control demand.

• POLLUTANT SPILLS CONTROL CENTRE CHIEF (JECECODECON): Chief Responsible of coordinating and directing from the Polluting Spills Control Centre, the control and cleaning operations and other collateral activities which derive of a contamination incident. According to the magnitude of the emergency and the covering level of the contingency plan that is activated, the JECECODECON will be able to act in the local, zonal or national environment, being denominated in this last case JENACECODECON. Each contamination fight operation, is carried out under the direction and supervision of the JECECODECON. It will have under its orders to the JECOM, JERP, JEL and JAD, and, when suitable, to the JEOL, until the finalisation of the incident. Their physical location will usually be the Pollutants Spills Control Centre (CECODECON).

• COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF (JECOM): Chief Responsible of the communications in the incident place.

PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS CHIEF (JERP): Chief responsible of the public relationships with the authorities, the community and the information means.  

• OPERATIVE CHIEF (JEO): Operative Chief designated for a certain jurisdiction area or for a specific operation, it will have under his/her orders and responsibility to the staff and the means which are assigned to him/her. According to the circumstances, the chief of CENACODECON will be able to designate more than one JEOL, defining its respective jurisdiction areas. In the event of a small or medium incident, the JEOL will act as JECECODECON.
• LEGAL CHIEF (JEL): Chief in charge of advising on legal aspects that can present the contamination  fight operations, or the investigations that are done to determine the origin of the polluting incident, in order to claim the payment of the expenses and compensations that correspond, as well as to facilitate the tests of the case so as to apply the sanctions that the law settles down. It shall possess wide knowledge in laws, maritime insurance and international agreements.
• OFFICIAL SPILL CONTROL TECHNIQUE: He/she is an official spill control expert whose function is to advise the JECECODECON in that matter.
• EXECUTOR ORGANISM: Responsible of the organisation and execution of the national operating systems with capacity to prevent, reduce and control contamination incidents in the aquatic means. It should provide and coordinate staff and appropriate means to eliminate the threat outlined by such incidents, reduce the adverse effects against the aquatic environment, to the quality of the coastal populations' life, to the health and the public well-being. In our country the executor organism is the ARGENTINE NAVAL PREFECTURE.
• EXTERNAL SUPPORT ORGANISMS (OREA): Any organism that can be summoned when executing the Contingency Plan, to render support to the response.

• NATIONAL CONTINGECY PLAN: Structure that possesses a country in the face of the possibility or risk of a bigger contamination incident of the aquatic means. It defines the politic and institutional responsibilities, settles down a response organisation, necessary basic information is provided, the critical areas are determined, the staff resources are assigned as well as the operative and financial means, suggesting also the course of action and recommendations for the success of the fight against the contamination of the aquatic mean.  
• ZONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN: instrument which includes a Zonal Prefecture Jurisdiction, allowing to confront a medium contamination incident of the aquatic means affecting a coastal, maritime or fluvial zone in the country, when the response capacity of a local contingency plan is exceeded.

• LOCAL CONTINGENCY PLAN: It is a practical plan that covers a jurisdictional area of a Dependence of the Institution (Prefecture and Sub-prefecture), allowing to confront a smaller contamination incident of the aquatic means affecting a coastal, marine or fluvial area of the country.

• ON SCENE OPERATION SUPERVISOR: It is an official spill control expert that will only be designated in those cases in which the person responsible of the contamination takes ahead, for him/her or for a third person the control tasks. Its functions will be to supervise the tasks that the responsible or the company hired to the effect executes, and to coordinate the actions that can arise among those involved and the Prefecture.  

• POLLUTING SUBSTANCES: It is understood for any substance whose introduction in the aquatic environment, can cause risks for the human health, damage the flora, the fauna and the alive resources of the means,  impair their recreational incentives or hinder the legitimate uses of the waters.
• EFFUSION:  
• For effusion is understood: 

All deliberated evacuation in the aquatic means of waste or other material made from ships, airships, platforms or other constructions in the aquatic means.

• The effusion doesn't include: