HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 17/6

REDUCTION OF POLLUTION FROM DISCHARGES INTO WATER,
EMISSIONS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND PHOSPHOGYPSUM
OUT OF THE PRODUCTION OF FERTILIZERS

     
     
Adopted 12 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 Area, 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 heavy metals as noxious substances for the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention, and that Annex III of the Convention defines nutrients as substances to be controlled to minimize land-based pollution of the marine environment,

RECALLING FURTHER that the Ministerial Declaration of the ninth meeting of the Helsinki Commission calls for a considerable reduction of land-based pollution,