HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission


HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 21/3

SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TOURISM
IN THE COASTAL ZONES OF THE BALTIC SEA AREA

Adopted 20 March 2000
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

NOTING Article 15 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention, and HELCOM Recommendation 15/1 on Protection of the Coastal Strip, particularly: "that in this protected coastal strip, activities which permanently change the nature and landscape," ... "not to be allowed, except when proved overwhelmingly in the public interest . .", and also " that a zone of at least 3 kilometres landward from the mean water line be established as a coastal planning zone ..",

BEARING IN MIND that the Action Programme for the Baltic Sea States co-operation, decided at the Baltic Sea States Summit 1996, states "The economic exploitation of natural resources through agriculture, forestry and tourism will be carried out taking full account of the need to protect the natural richness and biological diversity of the Baltic Sea Region",

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Common Recommendations for Spatial Planning of the Coastal Zone in the Baltic Sea Region by the Fourth Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning and Development within the Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea 2010 and other high lever conferences, such as the Berlin Conference on Biological Diversity and Tourism in March 1997, the " Rugen Recommendations", November 1997 and recommendations from Baltic Tourism Commission 1998,