Council Decision 77/585/EEC on the Mediterranean Sea

The dumping  of wastes or matter listed in Annex I is prohibited; this includes organohalogen and organosilicon compounds, organophosphorus compounds, organotin  compounds, mercury and cadmium and their compounds, persistent synthetic materials, crude oil and  hydrocarbons.

 

This Decision has been supplemented by a series of three other Decisions, namely 81/420/EEC, 83/101/EEC and 84/132/EEC, in which  additional substances, "the dumping of which requiring  special care", are found in the Annex II, namely arsenic,  lead, copper, zinc, beryllium, chromium, nickel, vanadium, selenium, antimony and their compounds.

 

 

 

77/585/EEC: Council Decision of 25 July 1977 concluding the Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution and the Protocol for the prevention of the pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by dumping from ships and aircraft

 

 

 

 

 

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