APPENDIX 2 - CRITERIA MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH 2 OF ARTICLE 1 OF ANNEX I AND IN PARAGRAPH 2 OF ARTICLE 2 OF ANNEX III
When setting priorities and in assessing the nature and extent of the
programmes and measures and their time scales, the Contracting Parties
shall use the criteria given below:
persistency;
toxicity or other noxious properties;
tendency to bioaccumulation;
radioactivity;
the ratio between observed or (where the results of observations are
not yet available) predicted concentrations and no observed effect concentrations;
anthropogenically caused risk of eutrophication;
transboundary significance;
risk of undesirable changes in the marine ecosystem and irreversibility
or durability of effects;
interference with harvesting of sea-foods or with other legitimate
uses of the sea;
effects on the taste and/or smell of products for human consumption
from the sea, or effects on smell, colour, transparency or other characteristics
of the water in the marine environment;
distribution pattern (i.e., quantities involved, use pattern and liability
to reach the marine environment);
non-fulfilment of environmental quality objectives.
These criteria are not necessarily of equal importance for the consideration
of a particular substance or group of substances.
The above criteria indicate that substances which shall be subject
to programmes and measures include:
heavy metals and their compounds;
organohalogen compounds (and substances which may form such compounds
in the marine environment);
organic compounds of phosphorus and silicon;
biocides such as pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides,
slimicides and chemicals used, inter alia, for the preservation
of wood, timber, wood pulp, cellulose, paper, hides and textiles;
oils and hydrocarbons of petroleum origin;
nitrogen and phosphorus compounds;
radioactive substances, including wastes;
persistent synthetic materials which may float, remain in suspension
or sink.
