HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 9/7

RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE GUIDELINES FOR
THE BALTIC MONITORING PROGRAMME

     
     
Adopted 17 February 1988
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

BEARING IN MIND the provisions of Articles 4 and 16 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974, (Helsinki Convention), concerning the application of the Convention and scientific and technological cooperation,

NOTING the concern on the state of the Baltic Sea, due to discharges of pollutants from various sources, especially from land-based sources, in spite of comprehensive measures taken by the Contracting Parties to reduce the discharges,

RECALLING the previous decisions to use a joint programme in monitoring,

BEARING IN MIND the provisions included in Article 4 of the Convention, in which the Contracting Parties undertake to ensure that the purposes of the Convention will be obtained also in internal waters,