Helsinki Convention

HELCOM Recommendation 23.11.2002. Requirements for discharging of waste water from the chemical industry. 61-66. Helsinki (Finland) Adopted March 6, having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b) of the Helsinki Convention. Annex 13. 

The results obtained analysing 1300 images for the year 2000 of the Baltic Sea are unsatisfactory. In fact only 100 oil spills were detected. This number of oil spills seems too low compared with data obtained from aerial surveillance in the framework of the Helsinki Convention (see ref. HELCOM). In particular, in the year 2000, 476 oil spills were detected by aerial surveillance (4809 flight hours). In the following years, the number of spills detected by aerial surveillance shows a positive decrease, 389 in 2001, 344 in 2002, 292 in 2003. 

The Helsinki Convention on the Rrotection of Baltic Sea (European Union Council Decisions 94/156/EC, and 94/157/EC 21 February 1994) is aimed at reducing pollution in the Baltic Sea area. The Fatties to the Convention undertake to ban the use of a series of hazardous substances. 

Helsinki Convention web site, http //europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/128089.htm. 

The widespread agricultural applications of trialkyltin biocidal agents have greatly increased the relative exposure risks to workers handling these materials. Internationally, tin was recognized as a potential environmental contaminant at the Paris and Helsinki conventions in 1974 in later conventions, organotin compounds were moved to the black list. Due to the increasing use of... 

Information on chemical munition dumped in the Baltic Sea until 1947 was provided by the contracting parties of the Helsinki Convention and observers from the United Kingdom, United States of America and Norway to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM CHEMU, 1994). According to the submitted information around 40,000 tonnes of chemical munition was dumped in the Baltic Sea after the World War II. It is estimated that the munition may contain about 13,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents. The following dumping areas in the Baltic Sea were identified (Fig. 1) ... 

Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1974 (Helsinki Convention), Helsinki Commission, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Report of the 15th Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 March 1994, HELCOM 15/18. 

Chemical Munition Dumped within the Area of the Helsinki Convention. Report to the Third Meeting of the Working Group on Dumped Munition. Copenhagen, Denmark. December 1993. 

Convention replaced by the 1992 Helsinki Convention which entered into force in 2000. 

The Mediterranean region was the third region (after the Bonn Agreement for the North Sea and the Helsinki Convention for the Baltic Sea) for which a regional agreement for coop-... 

P. C. Northam, "The Commercial Viability of Low Moisture Malting," Twentieth International Congress, European Brewery Convention, Helsinki, Einland, 1985. 

Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the European Brewery Convention Helsinki, IRL Press, Ltd., Oxford, UK, 1985. 

Aalto, V. (1998). The diversity of the flora and the structure of the vegetation on organically and conventionally fanned field margins. University of Helsinki Helsinki. 

Generally speaking, the FDA will require placebo-controUed studies wherever possible to demonstrate efficacy at the dose to be marketed and these are termed pivotal studies. Pivotal studies do not have to be placebo controlled, however, and in some areas, such as depression, the ICH guidelines suggest a three-arm study, with both an active comparator and a placebo control. The Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2000, suggested that in some disease areas, placebo-controlled studies are to be examined very carefuUy for their ethical content. This includes areas where conventional best therapy is generally acceptable. In this case, great care needs to be taken with the choice of active comparator. 

Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFIN), University of Helsinki, Finland... 

Dr. Mesilaakso is currently Acting Director of the Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFTN former CW Project) at the University of Helsinki. Before this, he worked at VERIFIN as a Research Scientist, Quality Manager and Research Director. He is a member of the Finnish National Authority of the CWC, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Defense of Finland, and a member of the OPCW Validation Group for data evaluation to the OPCW Central Analytical Database. 

Informed consent and experimental procedures were consistent with the Declaration of Helsinki All volunteers were in good health except an elderly subject who was studied because he had gluten enteropathy All volunteers living in the metabolic unit were fed constant mixed diets prepared from conventional foods All subjects were chaperoned when they left the metabolic unit to prevent ingestion of unauthorized foods or loss of excreta samples ... 

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