420 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 10 / 2017 • Center for the Tracking of Fisheries (CSP in its Spanish acronym)82: This center, located within the facilities of the General Inspection and Control Sub-directorate of the General Secretariat for Fishing (Madrid), is where all information and messages related to fishing vessels are processed. • Center for Operations and Surveillance of Maritime Actions (COVAM in its Spanish acronym)83: This center, located at the General Headquarters of the Navy’s Maritime Action Force (Cartagena), contributes to the shared CEM (knowledge of the maritime environment, in its Spanish acronym) centralizing the entrance of information proceeding from its own sensors and data bases and from other organisms based on agreements or contracts of subscription, and from civil and military networks, both national and international, which it forms part of. COVAM may distribute information through the Navy’s Collaborative Maritime Environment (ENCOMAR, in its Spanish acronym). • Canary Islands Center for Regional Coordination (CCRC)84: This center, located in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is constituted as the Situation and Tracking Center in the management of the maritime borders in the Canary Islands and in the control of illegal immigration into the islands; it centralizes the reception of information on illegal immigration in the countries of origin provided by the network of contact officers and coordinates the actions of the means of other State organisms and institutions related to the surveillance and control of irregular immigration when such is determined. 82 The system receives signals, satellite and terrestrial, from those fishing vessels having a total length equal to or greater than 12 meters, to which end these vessels carry, installed on board, a satellite tracking device called a “blue box”. This system is regulated by “Order APA 3660/2003” of 22 December and its modification by “Order ARM 3238/2008 of November 5 and is in accord with “Regulation (CE) nº 11224/2009 of the Council” of 20 November 2009 and with the “Regulation on execution (EU) nº 404/2011 of the Commission” of 8 April 2011, within the Community sphere. 83 The Center for Operations and Surveillance of Maritime Action (COVAM) is the center for fusion and analysis of data related to the maritime environment whose processing is fundamental for the generation of the adequate CEM (knowledge of the maritime environment) for the Naval Force operations. This data base is distributed to Naval authorities, who may complete is with additional information at operational land strategic levels. This information may also be integrated into command and control systems and into intelligence systems. Additionally, COVAM is integrated within the information exchange networks of national and international, civil and military maritime surveillance. 84 In accordance with the published contents of the “Order PRE/3108/2006”, of 10th October, the Council of Ministers, at its meeting on October 6 of 2006, agreed to the creation of the Authority for coordination of actions to cope with illegal immigration into the Canary Islands and the constitution of the Canary Islands Center for Regional Coordination (CCRC), as a means to “centralize the efforts of all activity developed by the General Administration of the State related to immigration into the Canary Islands, and the close coordination of all related organisms and available means, whether maritime, aerial, or terrestrial, employed to cope with it.” http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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