HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
 HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 10/2

ASSESSMENTS OF THE EFFECTS OF POLLUTION
ON THE COASTAL AREAS OF THE BALTIC SEA

     
     
Adopted 14 February 1989
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING that according to Paragraph 2 of Article 4 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974, (Helsinki Convention), each Contracting Party shall implement the provisions of the Convention within its territorial sea without prejudice to the sovereign rights with regard to these waters,

RECALLING ALSO that according to Paragraph 3 of Article 4 of the Helsinki Convention, the Contracting Parties undertake, without prejudice to their sovereign rights, to ensure that the purposes of the Convention will be obtained in their internal waters,

RECOGNIZING the importance of these coastal waters as recipients of discharges from land-based sources and as pathways of pollutants to the Baltic Sea Area,