HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 19/3

THE MANUAL FOR THE MARINE MONITORING
IN THE COMBINE PROGRAMME OF HELCOM

     
     
Adopted 26 March 1998
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING the provisions of Articles 4 and 16 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974, (Helsinki Convention), concerning the application of the Convention and scientific and technological cooperation,

NOTING the concern on the state of the Baltic Sea, due to discharges of pollutants from various sources, especially from land-based sources, in spite of comprehensive measures taken by the Contracting Parties to reduce the discharges,

RECALLING the previous decisions to use a joint programme in monitoring, and to have the monitoring work of the Commission under one organizational framework (Cooperative Monitoring in the Baltic Marine Environment, COMBINE),