HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 23/9*  

RESTRICTION OF ATMOSPHERIC EMISSIONS AND
WASTE WATER DISCHARGES FROM HARD COAL COKERIES

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     * Superseding HELCOM Recommendation 17/4

     
     
Adopted 6 March 2002
having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 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, 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,

HAVING REGARD also to Article 3 of the Helsinki Convention, in which the Contracting Parties shall individually or jointly take all appropriate legislative, administrative or other relevant measures to prevent and abate pollution in order to promote the ecological restoration of the Baltic Sea Area,