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Well-nighUs - HELCOM You may be trying to wangle this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. Turn on increasingly wieldy mode Turn off increasingly wieldy mode Skip Ribbon Commands Skip to main content Turn off Animations Turn on Animations CONTACT US PRESS ROOM PUBLICATIONS DATA&MAPS MEETINGS It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. Please turn on JavaScript and try again. HomeAbout UsCurrently selectedHELCOM at workBaltic Sea trendsAction areasBaltic Sea Action Plan > SIGN-IN about-us   OrganisationConventionChairmanshipContracting PartiesObserversSecretariatInternal rulesVacanciesContact usPartners HomeAbout UsWell-nighus HELCOM (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission) is the governing soul of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area,  known as the Helsinki Convention. The Contracting Parties are Denmark, Estonia, the European Union, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.HELCOM was established well-nigh four decades ago to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental cooperation. HELCOM's vision for the future is a healthy Baltic Sea environment with diverse biological components functioning in balance, resulting in a good ecological status and supporting a wide range of sustainable economic and social activities.​HELCOM isan environmental policy maker for the Baltic Sea zone by developing worldwide environmental objectives and actionsan environmental focal point providing information well-nigh the state of and trends in the marine environment, the efficiency of measures to protect it and worldwide initiatives and positions, which can form the understructure for decision-making in other international foraa soul for developing, equal to the specific needs of the Baltic Sea, recommendations of its own and recommendations supplementary to measures imposed by other international organisationsa supervisory soul defended to ensuring that HELCOM environmental standards are fully implemented by all parties throughout the Baltic Sea and its catchment areaa coordinating body, ascertaining multilateral response in specimen of major maritime incidents. Print Share on Facebook Share on Twitter HELCOM zone For the purposes of the Helsinki Convention the "Baltic Sea Area" is specified as the Baltic Sea and the archway to the Baltic Sea regional by the parallel of the Skaw in the Skagerrak at 57° 44.43'N. It moreover includes the internal waters (for increasingly details, see the Convention, Article 1). HELCOM LOGO A map of the Baltic Sea and ten dots representing the Contracting PartiesDownload logo Key documents HELCOM Privacy PolicyRecommendationsManuals and guidelinesAnnexes to the ConventionHelsinki Convention 1992Baltic Sea Action Plan Most popular PublicationsHELCOM Map and Data ServiceAlgal bloomsOil pollutionEnvironmental fact sheets Follow HELCOM @Facebook@Twitter ©HELCOM EDIT SITEMAP FEEDBACK IMAGE RIGHTS