HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 23/3

ENHANCING THE USE OF PILOTS IN ROUTE T AND THE SOUND BY NOTIFICATION TO
DEPARTING SHIPS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

     
     
Adopted 6 March 2002
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1b)
of the Helsinki Convention

Revised 2 March 2004 at the 25(th) Meeting of the Helsinki Commission, taking into account IMO resolution MSC. 138(76) superseding IMO resolutions A.579(14) and A.620(15).

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING the adoption by the HELCOM Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting on 10 September 2001 of the "Declaration on the safety of navigation and emergency capacity in the Baltic Sea Area" (HELCOM Copenhagen Declaration), in particular Paragraph II "To enhance the use of pilotage in Route T and the Sound",

MINDFUL that the Baltic Sea Area has been designated as a special area under Annexes I (oil), II (noxious liquid substances carried in bulk) and V (garbage) and as a SOx emission control area under Annex VI (air pollution) of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating hereto,