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Many communities have good capabilities for local emergency response and have organized volunteers with local knowledge and valuable competence from various professions. There is a need to identify best practices of utilizing the voluntary and industry resources in the best possible way and to their optimal capacity.

The challenge aims to reduce the bulk of the equipment carried by the rescue personnel.

Cruise ships might be the first on scene when there is an oil spill in the Arctic. How can they be equipped to be an oil spill response asset.

We have a challenge on how to board people from VOO for eample fishing boats on to bigger vessels.

Coherent data (e.g. from similar exercises and training) is needed for analysis that may deliver reliable results on existing challenges in performance and capabilities, SOPs etc. Therefore a shared methodology to exercises and trainings of emergency preparedness and security actors is needed in order to gain larger amount of data in ANA region.

There is a challenge for enhanced sharing of results of ongoing SAR projects within ANA SAR community.

There is a challenge for enhanced liaison with hospitals for emergency incident planning. This challenge can be also categorised under Pollution and Incident Control.

There is a need for enhanced involvement of indigenous partners in SAR activities.

There is a need for standardised protocol for incident investigation and implementation of lessons learned. This challenge can be also categorised under Pollution and Incident Control.

There is a need for regulations to ensure compulsory medical care insurance for all ANA passengers.