HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 20/5*

MINIMUM ABILITY TO RESPOND TO OIL SPILLAGES IN OIL TERMINALS

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     * This Recommendation supplements HELCOM Recommendation 11/13.

 
Adopted 23 March 1999
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention 1974

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 11 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974 (Helsinki Convention) and Article 14 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention according to which the Contracting Parties shall individually and jointly take all appropriate measures to maintain adequate ability and to respond to pollution incidents in order to eliminate or minimize the consequences of these incidents to the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area,

RECALLING ALSO Annex VI of the 1974 Helsinki Convention and Annex VII of the 1992 Helsinki Convention which provide basic principles on co-operation of the Contracting Parties in responding to marine pollution incidents,

RECALLING FURTHER HELCOM Recommendation 1/8 on minimization of the use of dispersants, sinking agents and absorbents in oil combatting operations in the Baltic Sea Area, HELCOM Recommendation 11/13 concerning development of national ability to respond to spillages of oil and other harmful substances and HELCOM Recommendation 17/13 concerning the use by the Baltic Sea States of the Manual on Co-operation in Combatting Marine Pollution within the framework of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area (Helsinki Convention),