HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 19/15

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR VESSELS BOUND FOR OR LEAVING PORTS
OF THE BALTIC SEA STATES AND CARRYING DANGEROUS OR POLLUTING GOODS

     
     
Adopted 24 March 1998
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 3, Paragraph 1 of the 1974 Helsinki Convention and Article 3, Paragraph 1 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention stipulating that the Contracting Parties shall individually or jointly take all appropriate legislative, administrative or other relevant measures in order to prevent and abate pollution and to protect and enhance the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area,

RECALLING ALSO Article 7, Paragraph 1 of the 1974 Helsinki Convention concerning protection of the Baltic Sea Area from pollution, inter alia, by deliberate, negligent or accidental release of oil or harmful substances other than oil from ships by development of measures set out in Annex IV of that Convention and Annexes I, II and III of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78),