HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 18/2
     
OFFSHORE ACTIVITIES

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     * This Recommendation supersedes HELCOM Recommendation 9/5
     as from 1 January 1998 for new installations and as from 1 January 2001 for existing installations.

     
Adopted 12 March 1997
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING that according to Article 10 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974 (Helsinki Convention), the Contracting Parties shall take all appropriate measures in order to prevent pollution of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area resulting from exploration or exploitation of its part of the seabed and the subsoil thereof or from any associated activities thereon, and ensure that adequate equipment is at hand to start an immediate abatement of pollution in that area,

RECALLING ALSO that the regulations in Annex IV to the Helsinki Conventions 1974 and 1992 apply to fixed and floating platforms to the extent discharges and emissions relating to the normal operation of ships are concerned,