BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

COOPERATION IN THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS
The original tekst of Regulation 1 of Annex IV of the Convention
stated that the Contracting Parties should cooperate and assist
each other in initiating action by International Maritime
Organization in order to develop:
- international rules for navigation of deep draught ships in
narrow and shallow waters in the international waters of
the Baltic Sea Area and in the entrances to the Baltic Sea
for the prevention of collisions, groundings and strandings.
A result of this cooperation was the adoption of IMO Assembly
Resolutions A.339 (IX) on navigation through the entrances to the
Baltic Sea and Resolution A.427(XI) on the use of pilot services
in the Sound Area. This resolution was later superseded by
Resolution A.579 (14) on proposal and strongly supported by all
the Baltic Sea States.
Requlation 2 of Annex IV requires that the Contracting Parties
shall assist each other in investigating violation of the
existing legislation on anti-pollution measures which have
occured or are suspected to have occured within the Baltic Sea
Area.
Recommendation 6/13 concerning cooperation in investigating
violations or suspected violations of discharge and related
regulations for ships and dumping regulations deals with the same
issues.
Even if this recommendation has been overtaken by international
recommendations issued by IMO and supplemented by HELCOM
Recommendation 10/8, this recommendation was for many years the
backbone for close cooperation between all the Baltic Sea States
and from a Danish point of wiev between Sweden and Denmark and
Germany, and Denmark in particular.
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