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    PCG Functions

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    The Philippine Coast Guard is responsible for maritime safety, environmental protection, search and rescue, and law enforcement in the country. It conducts port inspections to ensure foreign vessels are safe, prevents unsafe vessels from sailing, and maintains navigational aids like lighthouses. As the sole agency implementing international treaties on marine pollution, it responds to oil spills and enforces related laws. Following international conventions, the Coast Guard also leads maritime search and rescue efforts. It enforces various laws within the country's maritime jurisdiction, such as those involving fisheries, immigration, and illegal drugs, to combat transnational crimes.

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    The Philippine Coast Guard is responsible for maritime safety, environmental protection, search and rescue, and law enforcement in the country. It conducts port inspections to ensure foreign vessels are safe, prevents unsafe vessels from sailing, and maintains navigational aids like lighthouses. As the sole agency implementing international treaties on marine pollution, it responds to oil spills and enforces related laws. Following international conventions, the Coast Guard also leads maritime search and rescue efforts. It enforces various laws within the country's maritime jurisdiction, such as those involving fisheries, immigration, and illegal drugs, to combat transnational crimes.

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    The Philippine Coast Guard is responsible for maritime safety, environmental protection, search and rescue, and law enforcement in the country. It conducts port inspections to ensure foreign vessels are safe, prevents unsafe vessels from sailing, and maintains navigational aids like lighthouses. As the sole agency implementing international treaties on marine pollution, it responds to oil spills and enforces related laws. Following international conventions, the Coast Guard also leads maritime search and rescue efforts. It enforces various laws within the country's maritime jurisdiction, such as those involving fisheries, immigration, and illegal drugs, to combat transnational crimes.

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    The Philippine Coast Guard is responsible for maritime safety, environmental protection, search and rescue, and law enforcement in the country. It conducts port inspections to ensure foreign vessels are safe, prevents unsafe vessels from sailing, and maintains navigational aids like lighthouses. As the sole agency implementing international treaties on marine pollution, it responds to oil spills and enforces related laws. Following international conventions, the Coast Guard also leads maritime search and rescue efforts. It enforces various laws within the country's maritime jurisdiction, such as those involving fisheries, immigration, and illegal drugs, to combat transnational crimes.

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    Maritime Safety

     country’s vanguard against the entry of unsafe foreign vessels into the country through
    its Port State Control.
     At present, the Philippine Coast Guard has seven (7) PSC Centers and fifteen (15) PSC
    Divisions all throughout the archipelago. The PSC Center in Manila has the bulk of all
    inspections based on frequency of foreign ship calls.
     Pursuant to RA 9993, the Philippine Coast Guard is mandated to enforce regulations in
    accordance with all relevant maritime international conventions, treaties or instruments
    of which the government is signatory and national laws.  
     MARITIME SAFETY or MARSAF function is designed to help prevent or minimize
    unnecessary loss of lives and properties at sea. 
     The seaworthiness of every vessel leaving the port is ensured through the intensified
    Mandatory Pre-departure Inspection which include the compliance of vessels to safety
    standards and prevention of vessels from sailing for failure  to comply with the
    standards; conduct of random Emergency Readiness Evaluation and Operational
    Readiness Evaluation in the ports;  conduct of regular vessel safety inspections, and
    publication of Notice to Mariners (NOTAM), and the implementation and enforcement of
    navigational rules and designation of sea lanes, among others. 
     Further, the PCG is also responsible in issuing permits and supervises all marine
    salvage operations. It is mandated to destroy or tow floating hazards to navigation such
    as, but not limited to illegal fish traps and vessels.
     Moreover, navigational safety is ensured by operating and/or maintaining and servicing
    565 lighthouses and more than 44 navigational buoys around the country which guide
    and ensures safe voyage to mariners. 

    Maritime Environmental Protection

     The Philippines is a signatory to IMO Conventions on Marine Pollution of 1973 and 1978
    (MARPOL 73/78). The Philippine Coast Guard under RA 9993 is the sole agency
    responsible for the Philippine implementation of the Conventions with regards to oil
    pollution, prevention, mitigation and control through the conduct of marine pollution
    monitoring and control, enhancement of PCG capability and oil spill response operations
    and enforcement of all marine environmental laws and regulations.

    Maritime Search and Rescue

     The Philippine Coast Guard, in accordance with the Convention of Safety of Life at Sea
    (SOLAS), is the national maritime search and rescue service of the country. 
    Maritime Law Enforcement

     The PCG is likewise mandated to conduct MARITIME LAW ENFORCEMENT


    (MARLEN) and implement laws on fisheries (and poaching), immigration, tariff and
    customs, forestry, firearms and explosives, human trafficking, dangerous drugs and
    controlled chemicals, and to implement the revised penal code and all other applicable
    laws within the country’s maritime jurisdiction and battle transnational crimes. 
     The PCG is authorized to board and inspect all watercrafts suspected to be involved in
    or used in illegal trade. PCG personnel are also deemed agents of BFAR, Immigration,
    Customs, DENR, PDEA, and INTERPOL in the performance of its MARLEN function.
     As a maritime organization  under RA 9993 , it is deputized by 21 government agencies
    to perform maritime law enforcement functions directed towards the suppression of
    piracy, smuggling, poaching, illegal fishing, illegal entry, human smuggling, illegal
    logging, drug trafficking, gun running and terrorist activities.

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