HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 17/1

REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT SECTOR AFFECTING THE BALTIC SEA

     
     
Adopted 13 March 1996
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Articles 3 and 6 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 take all appropriate measures to prevent and eliminate pollution in order to promote the ecological restoration of the Baltic Sea by applying the precautionary and the polluter-pays principles and by promoting the use of BAT and BEP,

RECALLING also that the Ministerial Declaration of 1988 and the Baltic Sea Declaration of 1990 call, inter alia, for a substantial reduction of pollution from diffuse sources,

RECOGNIZING the fact that nitrogen compounds emitted from the transport sector contribute substantially to harmful eutrophication of the Baltic Sea Area,