1. Pierre DANIEL Météo-France Technologies for Search, Assistance and Rescue Brest, France, 18-19-20 October 2004 A review of the perspectives presented at OceanOps04

2. JCOMM OCEAN OPS 04 Outcome Outline

3. Intergovernmental body of technical experts in the field of oceanography and marine meteorology, with a mandate to prepare both:  regulatory material (what Member States shall do)  guidance material (what Member States should do) Joint WMO/IOC Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology JCOMM

4.   Integrated ocean observing system   Integrated data management   State-of-the-art technologies and capabilities   New products and services   User responsiveness and interaction   Involvement of all maritime countries JCOMM

5. JCOMM structure

6. GMDSS Global Maritime Distress & Safety System Defined by IMO for the provision of marine security information and the coordination of SAR alerts on a global basis. It is fully Operational since February 1999 A web site providing real- time maritime weather information is run by Météo-France: http://weather.gmdss.org

7. Marine Pollution Emergency Response Support System MPERSS provision of meteorological and oceanographic information for marine pollution emergency response operations outside waters under national jurisdiction

8.  Operational metocean products and services in support of maritime safety and environmental management  Toulouse, 10-15 May 2004  150 participants from 30 countries OCEAN OPS 04

9. Covering topics such as:  user requirements  observing systems  environmental management  climate forecasting  ocean modeling and forecasting  various aspects of marine pollution emergencies OCEAN OPS 04

10.  17-18 May: session of the ad hoc Task Team on MPERSS  19-21 May: Services Programme Area Coordination Group Two other meetings

11.  Creation of a new task team on JCOMM Ocean Products Development  Template for a JCOMM provider of operational oceanographic services and products  transformation of the MPERSS Task team into an Expert Team on Marine Pollution Response and Search and Rescue Support (MAPSAR)  a web site dedicated to MPERSS developed and hosted by Météo-France Outcome

12. www.mperss.org MPERSS Web site

13.  JCOMM Management Committee (Paris, 23-26 February 2005)  JCOMM-II (Halifax, Canada, 19-28 September 2005) Next JCOMM meetings