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KARADENİZ’İN KİRLİLİĞE KARŞI KORUNMASI SÖZLEŞMESİ (BÜKREŞ SÖZLEŞMESİ) CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK SEA AGAINST POLLUTION (BUCHAREST CONVENTION)

Article 2 capable of causing significant adverse effect on “Environmental quality standard” means the Article 3
Definitions the environment including effects on human concentration of a particular pollutant or group Scope of Application
health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water,
of pollutants in water, sediment or biota, which
For the purposes of this Protocol: climate, landscape and historical monuments should not be exceeded in order to protect hu- Pursuant to Article VII of the Convention and
or other physical structures or the interaction man health and the environment;
“Convention” means the Convention on the among these factors; they also include effe- with the objective to protect and preserve:
Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution, cts on the cultural heritage or socio-economic “Environmental quality objective” means a a) The marine environment of the Black Sea,
adopted at Bucharest on 21 April 1992; conditions resulting from alterations to those goal, which specifies a desirable target for en-
“Commission” means the body referred to in Ar- factors; vironmental quality that should be met in some b) Coastal areas of the Black Sea, including
brackish waters, coastal waters, marshes, and
ticle XVII of the Convention; “Hot spot” means a limited and definable local particular environment, such as a river, beach coastal lagoons, and
or industrial site;
“Contracting Party” means any Party to the land area, stretch of surface water or specific c) Ground waters communicating with the Bla-
Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea aquifer that is subject to excessive pollution “Land-based sources” means point and diffuse ck Sea.
against Pollution that has become a party to and necessitates priority attention in order to sources on land from which substances or ener-
this Protocol; prevent or reduce the actual or potential ad- gy reach the maritime area by water, through This Protocol shall apply to:
verse impacts on human health, ecosystems or the air, or directly from the coast;
“Best available techniques (BAT)” means the natural resources and amenities of economic i) Emissions of polluting substances originating
latest stage of development (state of the art) importance; “Point sources” means sources of pollution from land-based point and diffuse sources that
of processes, facilities or methods of operati- where emissions and releases are introduced may have a measurable adverse effect on the
on, which indicate the practical suitability of a “Emission” means any kind of discharges, efflu- into the environment from any discernible, marine environment or coastal areas of the
particular measure for limiting emissions and ents or releases of polluting substances into the confined and discrete conveyance, including Black Sea. These emissions shall include those
waste. water, air or soil; but not limited to pipes, outfalls, channels, which reach the marine environment through
ditches, tunnels, conduits or wells from which rivers, canals or other watercourses, including
“Techniques” include both the technology used “Emission controls” are controls requiring a spe- pollutants are or may be discharged; groundwater flow, coastal disposals and outfal-
and the way in which the installation is desig- cific emission limitation, for instance an emis- ls, disposal under the seabed with access from
ned, built, maintained, operated and dismant- sion limit value, or otherwise specifying limits “Diffuse sources” means sources of pollution, land, or through runoff;
led or conditions on the effects, nature or other other than point sources, from which substan-
characteristics of an emission or operating con- ces enter the environment as a result of land ii) Inputs of polluting substances transported
“Best environmental practice (BEP)” means the ditions which affect emissions; run-off, precipitation, atmospheric deposition, through the atmosphere into the marine en-
application of the most appropriate combina- drainage, seepage or by hydrologic modificati- vironment of the Black Sea from land-based
tion of environmental control measures and “Emission limit values” means the mass, exp- on or destruction of habitats. sources under the conditions defined in Annex
strategies; “Coastal area” means the part of the ressed in terms of certain specific parameters, III;
land affected by its proximity to the sea, and concentration or level of an emission, which
that part of the sea affected by its proximity may not be exceeded during any one or more iii) Activities that may directly or indirectly af-
to the land as to the extent to which man’s periods of time. The emission limit values for fect the marine environment or coastal areas
land-based activities have a measurable influ- substances shall normally apply at the point of the Black Sea such as works which cause
ence on water chemistry and marine ecology; where the emissions leave the installation, dilu- physical alteration of the natural state of the
tion being disregarded when determining them; coastline, including alteration or destruction of
“Harmful activity” means any activity which is the landscape or habitats.

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