HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 13/2*

INDUSTRIAL CONNECTIONS AND POINT SOURCES OTHER THAN HOUSEHOLD
CONNECTED TO MUNICIPAL SEWERAGE SYSTEMS

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     * supersedes HELCOM Recommendation 12/4

     
Adopted 5 February 1992
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties undertake to take all appropriate measures to control and minimize land-based pollution of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area,

RECALLING ALSO that Annex II of the Helsinki Convention defines a list of harmful substances for the purpose of Article 6 of the Convention,

RECOGNIZING that heavy metals and other harmful substances originating from industrial plants and point sources other than household can not be sufficiently reduced in municipal treatment plants,