3.The Agency may, upon the request of the Commission or the EEAS, or both, or the Member States, provide assistance for pollution caused by ships and for marine pollution caused by oil and gas installations affecting third countries sharing a regional sea basin with the Union. The Agency shall provide the assistance in accordance with the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, and with the conditions applicable to Member States as referred to in Article 5(1) applied by analogy to those third countries. Those tasks shall be coordinated with the existing regional cooperation arrangements related to marine pollution.