HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 23/4*

MEASURES AIMED AT THE REDUCTION OF MERCURY POLLUTION RESULTING
FROM LIGHT SOURCES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

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* Superseding HELCOM Recommendation 18/5

Adopted 6 March 2002
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 5 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1992 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties undertake to prevent and eliminate pollution of the Baltic Sea Area caused by harmful substances from all sources, according to the provisions of this Convention and, to this end, to implement the procedures and measures of Annex I,

RECALLING ALSO that Annex I of the 1992 Helsinki Convention defines heavy metals as harmful substances for the purposes of Article 5 of the Convention,