Regional strategic approach. HELCOM's management framework for hazardous substances

Areas of knowledge

Response protocols and equipment

Contingency planning

Target environment

Marine/coastal environments

Organisations

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission

Resource type

Guías / protocolos

2025

Vasileios Kouloumpos, HELCOM Secretariat, strategic/holistic sub-team and the sub-team on Priority substances, substances of emerging concern and screening of the HELCOM Expert Group on Hazardous Substances.

Baltic Sea Action Plan 2021 identified the need for the development of a regional strategic approach for addressing hazardous substances in HELCOM (action HL1). EG Haz developed the approach and framework described in this document by focusing on the findings and proposals of a background report which had reviewed the previous HELCOM hazardous substances framework (BSEP 182).

https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Regional-strategic-approach_HELCOM-management-framework-for-hazardous-substances.pdf

Baltic Sea

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