There are specific elements in the treaty that cover off essentially the life cycle of an incident. For example, if one country detected that an oil spill has occurred, how would we go about notifying each other; what kind of participation would we undertake; how would we call on others to work with us to resolve the recovery of the oil; how do we share best practices; how do we exercise and train? Those are really elements establishing protocols amongst ourselves so that we're not trying to figure them out in the midst of an incident.
On February 28th, 2013. See this statement in context.