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The 1992 Protocol on protection of the Black Sea Marine Environment against pollution from land based sources requires the BSC to:
- Define pollution prevention criteria as well as recommend appropriate measures to reduce, control and eliminate pollution of the marine environment of the Black Sea from land-based sources (Article 6);
- Assist the Contracting Parties in informing one another of measures taken, results achieved or difficulties encountered in the application of this Protocol; and
- Determine procedures for the collection and transmission of such information (Article 7).
The 1992 Dumping Protocol provides, among other things, that the BSC shall be entrusted with receiving records of permits on dumping in the Black Sea of wastes or other matter issued by competent national authorities.
The 1992 Emergency Protocol requires that the BSC shall be informed and provide this information to other interested states in cases where the marine environment of the Black Sea is in imminent danger of being damaged or has been significantly damaged by pollution.
The 2003 Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol added an entirely new aspect to the mandate of the BSC, having extended it to cover issues of species and landscape protection and conservation. Under the Biodiversity Protocol the BSC must:
- Promote the implementation of the Protocol, inform the Contracting Parties of its work and make recommendations on measures necessary for achieving the aims of the Protocol (Article 13).
- Report on the state of the biological and landscape diversity and efficacy of undertaken measures to preserve and manage it to the Meeting of the Contracting Parties on a five year basis in a jointly agreed reporting format.
- Be responsible (through its subsidiary bodies - the Advisory Group on the Conservation of Biological Diversity and the ad hoc Advisory Group on the Development of Common Methodology for Integrated Coastal Zone Management) for scientific activities and monitoring and assessment in the field of biological and landscape diversity, delegating the co-ordination of this work to the appropriate activity centres (Batumi, Georgia, and Krasnodar, the Russian Federation) (Article 10).
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