HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 23/1*

NOTIFICATION OF SHIP'S WASTES

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     * Superseding HELCOM Recommendation 19/11

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

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING the adoption, in 1996, by the Seventeenth Meeting of the Helsinki Commission of the Strategy for Port Reception Facilities for Ship-generated Wastes and Associated Issues (the Baltic Strategy) as the basic tool for substantial decrease of operational discharges and elimination of illegal discharges in the Baltic Sea area by all ships irrespective of their nationality,

RECALLING ALSO the adoption, in 1998, by the Nineteenth Meeting of the Helsinki Commission of several HELCOM Recommendations as a follow-up to the Baltic Strategy, and among these HELCOM Recommendation 19/11 concerning notification of ship's wastes,

MINDFUL that the notification of the intended use of a reception facility is a prerequisite to ensure the use and efficient operation of port reception facilities,