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Item NEPTUNE: Expedition Cruise Vessels and Arctic Oil Spill Preparedness and Response(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2025-05-12) Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (EPPR)The NEPTUNE project aims to investigate and potentially improve the self-reliance of expedition cruise vessels in the event of oil-spills and examine how expedition cruise vessels can be utilized as a resource in Arctic oil spill preparedness and response.Item Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness & Response in the Arctic Notification and Request for Assistance Exercise(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2025) Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (EPPR)This exercise After Action Report provides an overview of the activities conducted to support the exercise, observations made during the exercise, and presents findings and recommendations regarding updates to the Operational Guidelines and support tools.Item Low Sulphur Fuels in the Arctic(2024-01-25)The Maritime Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted specific requirements as to the maximum sulphur content of any fuel oil intended for combustion purposes for propulsion or operation on board a ship. According to Regulation 14 of Annex VI of MARPOL the global sulphur limit was reduced from 3.50% to 0.50% from first of January 2020. For vessels operating in Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECA) under MARPOL, the limit, has been 0.10%, since first of January 2015. As a result of the regulatory developments, the industry responded by offering Low Sulphur Fuels Oil (LSFO – 0.50%) and ULSFO (Ultra Low Sulphur Fuel Oil – 0.10%) for ships that previously used different residual fuel oil blends as fuel, including Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). These developments also led to the joint PAME-EPPR project “New Low Sulphur Fuels, Fate, and Behavior in Cold Water Conditions” which was included in both PAME’s and EPPR’s Work Plans for 2021-2023. The project is led by Norway and contains five work packages (WPs): WP1. Questionnaire WP2. Industry Involvement Workshop WP3. Fuel oil sampling WP4. Fate and behavior WP5. Toxicity testing This is the first report from this project and derives from WP1. A final report for the project will be produced. Experts from Canada, Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, USA, China, Germany, Korea, Singapore and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have participated in the project. Additionally, experts from industry have also participated as consultants, including from DNV and SINTEF in Norway.Item Arctic Oil Pollution Research and Development Workshop Report(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2021-05) EPPRIn 2017, the EPPR and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) hosted a workshop to share information and discuss the latest advances in oil spill response technology and best practices relevant to the Arctic region.Both the U.S. interagency and international R&D communities recognized this workshop as a successful first step towards building a better platform for sharing and advancing efforts to enhance oil spill response.Item Preventing and Responding to Oil Spills in the Arctic(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2020-08) EPPRFactsheet on the Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic (MOSPA) Agreement