HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
 HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 6/4

RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING MEASURES AIMED AT THE REDUCTION
OF MERCURY RESULTING FROM DENTISTRY

     
     
Adopted 13 March 1985
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING that according to Article 6 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974, (Helsinki Convention) , the Contracting Parties shall take all appropriate measures to control and strictly limit pollution by noxious substances,

RECALLING ALSO that Annex II of the Helsinki Convention defines mercury as a noxious substance for the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention,

RECOGNIZING the relative importance of dentistry as the source of pollution by mercury,

BEING MINDFUL of the pollution caused by emissions of mercury resulting from dentistry,