HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 17/12

MEASURES TO ABATE POLLUTION BY OIL AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES
IN CASES OF GROUNDING, COLLISION, SINKING OF A SHIP OR
OTHER MARITIME CASUALTY

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

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING paragraphs 6 and 7 of Article 2, Article 11, Annex II and Annex VI of the 1974 Helsinki Convention and paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 of Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 3, Article 5, Article 14, Annex I and Annex VII of the 1992 Helsinki Convention,

RECALLING ALSO International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969 and Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil, 1973, as amended,

RECALLING FURTHER Articles 211 and 221 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,

BEARING IN MIND the recent incidents which posed a serious threat to the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area and to the coastlines and related interests of the Contracting Parties to the Helsinki Convention,