1.The Agency shall, in a cost-efficient way, support the Member States with additional pollution response operational means, including those to be developed for sustainable alternative fuels, for pollution caused by ships and for marine pollution caused by oil and gas installations.The Agency shall provide such support on request of the Member State concerned under the authority of which the cleaning operations are conducted. Such support shall be without prejudice to the responsibility of coastal States to have appropriate pollution response mechanisms in place and shall respect existing cooperation between Member States in this field.The operational means that the Agency provides to the Member States shall take into account and make provision for the transition of the sector to the use of sustainable alternative sources of power for ships. Where appropriate, requests for mobilisation of anti-pollution actions shall be relayed through the Union Civil Protection Mechanism established by Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote (‘the Union Civil Protection Mechanism’).