HELSINKI COMMISSION

     
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 25/2

     
REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES FROM INDUSTRY
BY EFFECTIVE USE OF BAT

     
     
Adopted 2 March 2004
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b)
of the Helsinki Convention, 1992

SCOPE: This Recommendation supplements the provisions on principles for issuing permits for industrial plants contained in Annex III, Regulation 3 of the Convention aiming especially on the reduction of (HELCOM priority) hazardous substances. This Recommendation also supplements several sector specific HELCOM Recommendations. Its specific aim is to guide the identification of effective BAT for the control of emissions and discharges of Hazardous Substances (identified by HELCOM for priority action) as well as nutrients and substances causing oxygen depletion in relevant industrial sectors. The aim is also to provide information on substitution of hazardous substances by less- or non-hazardous substances.

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1992 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties undertake to prevent and eliminate pollution of the Baltic Sea Area from land-based sources by using, inter alia, Best Environmental Practice for all sources and Best Available Technology for point sources,