HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 20/2*

APPROVAL OF PESTICIDES ("PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS")
FOR USE IN THE CATCHMENT AREA OF THE BALTIC SEA

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     * This HELCOM Recommendation supersedes the HELCOM Recommendation 13/13

     
     
Adopted 23 March 1999
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention 1974

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 2 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 1992 (Helsinki Convention), in which the "pollution from land based sources" is defined i.a. as pollution of the sea by point or diffuse inputs from all sources on land reaching the sea waterborne, airborne or directly from the coast,

RECALLING Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Helsinki Convention, in which the Contracting Parties undertake to prevent and eliminate pollution of the Baltic Sea Area from land -based sources by using , inter alia, Best Environmental Practice for all sources and Best Available Technology for point sources,