PROGRESS REPORTS ON CADMIUM, MERCURY, COPPER AND ZINC

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

I PROGRESS REPORT ON CADMIUM;- prepared by Sweden

1. INPUT OF CADMIUM TO THE BALTIC SEA 2

1.1 Airborne load2

1.2 River load 3

1.3 Direct discharges3

CADMIUM IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT

Concentrations in the water .

Concentrations in plankton and particulate matter

Concentrations in the sediments .

Biological availability .

Concentrations in the biota .

Indications of toxic effects in the Baltic.

Cadmium in human food and in man

USES AND EMISSIONS OF CADMIUM .

The use of cadmium

Emissions of cadmium

Methods for reducing cadmium emissions

National standards

PROPOSALS FOR FURTHER ACTIONS .

Actions reported by the Contracting Parties .

Summary and Lead Country recommendations as by May 1983

Comments on the first progress report .

Proposed recommendations (WGS 1984) .

REFERENCES

II PROGRESS REPORT ON MERCURY prepared by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1. INTRODUCTION 71

MERCURY IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE BALTIC SEA

Mercury in the environment and the toxicity of mercury compounds

Mercury in the water

Mercury in the hydrobionts

Mercury in the bottom sediments

PRODUCTION AND USE OF MERCURY AND SOURCES OF MERCURY POLLUTION

Production and use of mercuryI.

Sources of mercury pollution

National requirements for discharges .

Environmental quality standards

Proposals concerning reduction of mercury emissions to the environment

3.5.1 Measures applied in the Baltic Sea States for reducing mercury emissions to the environment



3.5.2 Proposals for measures aimed at the reduction of discharges of mercury.... W.

4. INSERTION OF MERCURY TO ANNEX 1 OF HELSINKI CONVENTION..

5. REFERENCES.

III PROGRESS REPORT ON COPPER AND ZINC; prepared by the German Democratic Republic

GENERAL.

COPPER AND ZINC IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. .

NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS FOR ENVIRONMENT.

DISCHARGE OF COPPER AND ZINC INTO THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

MONITORING OF COPPER AND ZINC DISCHARGED INTO MARINE ENVIRONMENT .

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LIMITATION OF DISCHARGES OF COPPER AND ZINC

REFERENCES

IV HELCOM RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING Cadmium and Mercury, adopted by the

Helsinki Commission ._ 114

V BALTIC SEA ENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS .I. 121