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The Bonn Agreement was concluded in 1969. It is an agreement of cooperation between the different coastal states around the North Sea which aims at preventing and combating marine pollution caused by vessels. The coastal states concerned are: Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Northern Ireland, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 1989 it was decided to expand this agreement with aerial surveillance above the North Sea. Every coastal state regularly organizes in its own part of the North Sea surveillance for shipping so as to be able to track and to verbalize illegal marine pollution. In Belgium, the Management Unit for the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM) is charged with the aerial surveillance of the Belgian part of the North Sea, together with DG Environment of FPS Public Health.
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