HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 15/2

POLLUTION LOAD COMPILATION     

     
Adopted 9 March 1994
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties undertake to take all appropriate measures to control and minimize land-based pollution of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area,

NOTING the increasing concern on harmful effects of pollutants in the environment and that an essential amount of various contaminants is entering the Baltic Sea via rivers, from industrial and municipal sources as well as from non-point sources,

DESIRING to limit the pollution of the Baltic Sea from the land-based sources,

BEING MINDFUL of the need of reliable data on the waterborne load of pollutants to the Baltic Sea from land-based sources,