HELSINKI COMMISSION

     
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 24/10

     
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT
OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN THE BALTIC SEA AREA

Adopted 25 June 2003
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b)
of the Helsinki Convention  

THE COMMISSION

RECALLING Article 3 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1992 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties declare to apply the precautionary principle, and Article 15 in which the Contracting Parties agree to individually and jointly take all appropriate measures, with respect to the Baltic Sea Area and its coastal ecosystems influenced by the Baltic Sea, to conserve natural habitats and biological diversity and to protect ecological processes,

RECALLING FURTHER previous HELCOM Recommendations of relevance to Integrated Marine and Coastal Management of human activities or related issues as listed in Attachment 1,