HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 16/3

PRESERVATION OF NATURAL COASTAL DYNAMICS

     
     
Adopted 15 March 1995
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 13 g of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea, 1974 Helsinki Convention,

NOTING Article 15 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention and the recommendation concerning the protection of the coastal strip (HELCOM 15/1), particularly: "that in this protected coastal strip, activities which would permanently change the nature and landscape,"... "not be allowed, except when proved overwhelmingly in the public interest..."; "that a zone of at least 3 kilometres landward from the mean water line be established as a coastal planning zone...",

NOTING ALSO that conflicts exist between the goals of coastal defence* and the goals of nature conservation and that coastal defence measures often lead to, e.g.:

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