BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL COMMITTEE (TC)
A. The duties of the Technological Committee (TC) of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection
Commission are:
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to advise the Commission in discharging its duties under Article 13 of the Helsinki
Convention, especially in respect of matters related to Articles 5, 6, 9, 10 and 16 of the
Convention, and in particular:
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to collect and review technological data and knowledge pertinent to the goals of the
Convention and to promote the exchange of information;
(ii) to elaborate and periodically review cooperative control programmes concerning
collection of data on discharges to the Baltic Sea, and to elaborate methods, models
and techniques, taking into account the need for intercalibration and standardization;
(iii) to assess the pollution load to the Baltic Sea from direct and indirect sources;
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to elaborate criteria and standards for the abatement of land-based pollution to the
Baltic Sea, and to elaborate proposals for the Commission as appropriate, taking into
account the state of the marine environment.
b) to invite, when deemed necessary, other Committees of the Commission to consider specific
matters related to their mandates;
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to reauest its subsidiary bodies, when deemed necessary, to invite relevant subsidiary bodies
of other Committees to consider specific matters related to their mandates;
d) to advise on any other matter remitted to it by the Commission;
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to renort to the Commission on its activities and to submit its report to other Committees of
the Commission for information and, as appropriate, for comments,
B. TC may, subject to approval by the Commission, establish sub-groups and temporary groups for
consideration of matters related to its mandate;
C. TC may cooperate, when authorized by the Commission, with competent international bodies in the
field of science and technology related to its mandate;
D. The Technological Secretary of the Commission shall ex officio serve as the Secretary of TC.
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