BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

Bernd Mehlhorn
Chairman TC POINT
TC POINT
Riga, 2nd September 1993/DZ.
Working Group on Reduction of Discharges and Emissions from Point
Sources
Summary:
The lesal basis of the.work of TC POINT regarding the Convention
text of 1992 (especially Article 6), Annex II (Best Environmental
Practice *BEP and Best Available Technology =BAT) and Annex III
(Criteria and measures concerning the prevention of pollution
from land-based sources) is shown.
The duties of TC POINT which are laid down in the Terms of Reference
and which include, inter alia, the identification of landbased
discharges from point sources, the identification of BEP.
and BAT and the restriction of discharges are discussed.
Important objectives of the Work Programme, inter alia, the ranking
of priorities and the implementation of BEP and BAT are
mentioned.
Finally the existing HELCOM Recommendations concerning TC POINT
are listed and those which are under discussion are introduced.
With HELCOM Recommendation 14/3 ("glass industry") as example the
common structure of HELCOM Recommendations concerning TC POINT is
explained.
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