HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 21/4

PROTECTION OF HEAVILY ENDANGERED OR IMMEDIATELY THREATENED
MARINE AND COASTAL BIOTOPES IN THE BALTIC SEA AREA

     
     
Adopted 20 March 2000
having regard to Article 20 (1), Paragraph b)
of the 1992 Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

HAVING REGARD to Article 15 of the 1992 Helsinki Convention and in particular the efforts of Contracting Parties to conserve and protect biodiversity of marine and coastal areas,

NOTING HELCOM Recommendations 15/1 on Protection of the Coastal Strip and 16/3 on Preservation of Natural Coastal Dynamics,

RECALLING the 1994 HELCOM-List of ATypes of Coastal and Marine Biotopes and Nature Types of the Baltic Sea Area with Particular Ecological Value@,

BEING AWARE that in the Baltic Sea region some marine and coastal biotopes and biotope complexes, often important for rare or threatened species, are continuing to deteriorate,