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(b) Adoption of programmes and measures on the development of harmonized assessment
criteria and monitoring programmes based on regionally or internationally agreed quality control
and quality assurance procedures;
(c) Encouraging States, including land-locked States, that are not already parties to regional
seas arrangements regarding the protection of the marine and coastal environment from landbased
activities, to join such cooperation and to cooperate on bilateral and multilateral basis in the
control of pollution from oil;
(d) Promoting cooperation on the development of cleaner- production programmes, best
available techniques, and best environmental practice;
(e) Development of regional plans and measures to prevent accidental releases of oils, and
development of regional capacities to respond to such accidents;
(f) Where appropriate, the provision of regional reception and recycling facilities for oily
wastes.
(c) International actions
126. International actions should include:
(a) Strengthening and extending existing international quality assurance, standardization and
classification mechanisms for oil, oil products and their constituents to ensure that inventories and
assessments are both reliable and intercomparable. Such existing mechanisms include those cosponsored
by IOC, UNEP, and IAEA under the GIPME programme, and the associated activities
of the Marine Environmental Studies Laboratory in Monaco;
(b) Participation in a clearing-house for information on best available techniques (BAT), best
environmental practice (BEP), and integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) to reduce
and/or eliminate emissions and discharges of oil;
(c) Cooperation with countries in need of assistance through financial, technical, and scientific
support, to maximize the best practicable control and reduction in emissions and discharges of oil.
F. Nutrients
1. Basis for action
127. Eutrophication can result from augmentation of nutrient inputs to coastal and marine areas as
a consequence of human activities. In general, such eutrophication is usually confined to the
vicinity of coastal discharges but, because of both the multiplicity of such discharges and regional
atmospheric transport of nutrients, such affected coastal areas can be extensive.
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