HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 19/16*

CO-OPERATION IN INVESTIGATING VIOLATIONS OR SUSPECTED VIOLATIONS
OF DISCHARGE AND RELATED REGULATIONS FOR SHIPS,
DUMPING AND INCINERATION** REGULATIONS

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     * This Recommendation supersedes HELCOM Recommendations 6/13, 10/8, 16/1 (except for elaboration of the Manual on the legal systems of the Contracting Parties) and 16/2

** Incineration is prohibited under Article 10 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention.        

Adopted 24 March 1998
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
and Regulation 2 of Annex IV
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Regulation 2 of Annex IV of the Helsinki Convention stipulating that the Contracting Parties shall assist each other in investigating violations of the existing legislation on anti-pollution measures, which have occurred or are suspected to have occurred within the Baltic Sea Area by, inter alia, inspecting oil record books, cargo record books, log books, and engine log books and taking samples for analytical identification purposes,