HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 17/8*

REDUCTION OF DISCHARGES FROM THE KRAFT PULP INDUSTRY

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     * supersedes HELCOM Recommendation 11/4

     
Adopted 13 March 1996
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, 1974 (Helsinki Convention) the Contracting Parties shall take all appropriate measures to control and strictly limit pollution by noxious substances and nutrients,

RECALLING ALSO that Annex II of the Helsinki Convention defines lignin substances contained in industrial waste water as noxious substances to be controlled to minimize land-based pollution of the marine environment,

HAVING REGARD to the Ministerial Declaration of 1988 and to the Baltic Sea Declaration of 1990, calling, inter alia, for a substantive reduction of the load of pollutants most harmful to the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea,