BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

Recommendation 6/13
Recommendation 6/ 14
Recommendation 7112
Recommendation lO/ 1
Recommendation 10/8
Recommendation Concerning Co-operation in Investigating
Violations or Suspected Violations of Discharge and
Related Regulations for Ships and Dumping Regulations
Recommendation Concerning Establishing of an Early Warning
Reporting System for Pollution Incidents
Recommendation Concerning the Application of the IMO
Guidelines for Reporting Incidents Involving Harmful
Substances
Recommendation Concerning Abnormal Situations in the
Marine Environment
Recommendation Concerning Co-operation in Investigating
Violations or Suspected Violations of Discharge and
Related Regulations for Ships and Dumping Regulations.
(This Recommendation supplements Recommendation 603)
At the third meeting of the Helsinki Commission in February 1982 it was decided that a
manual on co-operation in combatting spillages of oil and other harmful substances on the
sea should be worked out within the Helsinki Convention context and that such a manual
should contain a series of detailed guidelines for reporting, management, rendering of
assistance, etc. in joint combatting operations.
The manual, Volume 1 (containing guidelines for co-operation) and Volume 2, (containing
national information on organization, special regulations, combatting resources and
procedures relating to request for salvage, docking and tugboat assistance) was adopted by
the Helsinki Commission at its fourth meeting in February 1983 according to HELCOM
Recommendation 4/4. Volumes 1 and 2 have primarily been worked out relating to cooperation
in combatting spillages of oil.
VoIume 3 RESPONSE TO INCIDENTS INVOLVING CHEMICALS (containing
information on transportation of chemicals and related risks in the Baltic Sea Area, as well
as suitable combatting methods) was adopted in accordance with HELCOM Recommendation
4/4 by the Combatting Committee at its 13th meeting in November 1989.
The updating of the guidelines, etc. in the Manual is the responsibility of the Helsinki
Commission Secretariat according to information received from the Contracting Parties and
instructions given by the relevant body of the Helsinki Commission.
It should be noted that the guidelines contained in the manual are valid on the
conditions that they are not in conkadiction to national legislation or other national
regulations of the Contracting Parties.
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