This report has gathered the most updated information on international marine pollution control and international conventions. From evaluation on Chapter 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and analysis on the differences between the Law of the Sea and Taiwan’s Marine Pollution Control Act (herein referred to as this Act), recommendations on regulation amendments have been proposed. Analysis on the raw materials specified in the permits of Yulin Offshore Industrial Park. Test results of the marine water quality are in line with Group A marine water quality standards. Various domestic water quality monitoring databases have been analyzed regarding the fields and types of databases in order to create an integrated system and to design worksheets format for the collection of information on monitoring station and monitoring data from various sources. In total, 32,030 sets of data have been transferred to the new integrated database. Check sheets have been developed to audit the public or private premises that use marine facilities to convey oil. This year five of Operation Directions audits have been conducted.Ten types of forms have been designed with detailed instructions for the application of marine pollution control permit and the report of ocean monitoring plan. Four audits of marine dumping activities have been conducted and the results are in line with the marine dumping permits. Marine dumping areas have been adequately reviewed for the amendment recommendations on site selection criteria and the monitoring items on the regulations governing permit applications. It is suggested to collect marine dumping fee after the impact analysis of human resources by the competent authority. Subsequently, the Regulations Governing the Collection of Various Marine Pollution Control Permit Application Fees shall be amended. The 2010 Marine Pollution Prevention Audit Plan was carried out. Auditing criteria have been proposed. In the second stage auditing, on-site inspection was organized. The auditing criteria, benchmarking and associated weighting table are then proposed for next yearly audit plan. Fish is chosen to demonstrate the data integration model for creating biological resource index as one of the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI). In order to enrich the database of coastline classification in ESI system, an investigation of coastline in eastern Taiwan has been conducted and thematic layers of Geographic Information System (GIS) have been created. The oil pollution investigation process, ESI classification and the manual of shoreline cleanup assessment technique have been reviewed and revised. The pollution improvement plans of ports have been collected from the central and local governments. The investigation of pollution sources of nine chosen ports is completed. Plans to improve port pollution are developed. Audit plans for port pollution is proposed. Auditing method and check sheets have been designed. A discussion meeting has been held. The information of ships of more than 20 tons and of domestic port registration are collected. 5,984 datasets have been established. The database is enriched so that one could check the amount of waste oil and wastewater discharged and received by each ship. The interface of Marine Pollution Control Management System (herein referred to as the Management System) and the Environmental Enforcement Management System (EEMS) is established to send automatically the information of marine pollution audit disposition to EEMS and to obtain regularly the information of audit disposition from EEMS. Water pollution emergency response system has been revised and put on line for use. The system integration framework is proposed to integrate the Management System into the Environmental Management System (EMS). Correlating the information of waste oil and wastewater reported by ship and its associated nationality registry, the system can automatically screen out those who do not report the amount of waste oil and wastewater. The information of each ship’s Marine Hull Insurance is added to the Management System. The ESI thematic layers are updated due to the expansion of biological resources and human-use resources. The marine chemical emergency response supporting system is added to the Management System and can provide information on 15 kinds of chemicals. The interface of the Management System has been redesigned to enhance its functions: addition of emergency notification information delete function, e-mail function of final reports, submitting time of notification, response and final report, as well as the search function of ships’ insurance information.

Marine Pollution Control Act, Environmental Sensitivity Index,Marine Pollutant Database Management System,Marine Major Pollution Contingency Response System