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APPROVED
By Order No D1-934 of the Minister of Environment of
the Republic of Lithuania of 19 November 2010
ACTION PLAN 2010–2015 FOR THE STRATEGY FOR THE BALTIC MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Objectives
Tasks
Strategic objective: to achieve or maintain
good environmental status of the Baltic Sea
by the year 2020:
– to protect and preserve the marine
environment, prevent its deterioration or,
where practicable, restore marine ecosystems
in areas where they have been adversely
affected;
– to prevent and reduce inputs in the marine
environment, so as to ensure that there are no
significant impacts on or risks to marine
biodiversity, marine ecosystems, human
health or legitimate uses of the sea.
1. Objective one: to aim at applying an
1.1. To improve the management of the
ecosystem-based approach to the
protection of the marine environment by
management of the protection of the marine applying an ecosystem-based approach.
environment, ensuring that the pressure of
human activities is kept within levels
compatible with the achievement or
maintenance of good environmental status of
the Baltic Sea and that the capacity of marine
ecosystems to respond to human-induced
changes is not compromised, while enabling
the sustainable use of marine goods and
services by present and future generations.
Actions for implementing the tasks
1.1.1. Taking into account the European Union
requirements, to prepare and approve an order of the
Minister of Environment of the Republic of
Lithuania “On the approval of the procedure for
defining the assessment of the status of the marine
environment, features of good environmental status
of the Baltic Sea, objectives of the protection of the
marine environment, a monitoring programme and
measures”;
1.1.2. To prepare a draft resolution of the
Government of the Republic of Lithuania “On the
approval of the State environmental monitoring
programme 2011–2016”;
1.1.3. To carry out an assessment of the status of the
marine environment and the impact of human
activities on the marine environment;
1.1.4. To establish features of good environmental
status of the Baltic Sea and to propose
environmental targets for achieving or maintaining
good environmental status of the Baltic Sea;
1.1.5. To prepare a marine environmental
monitoring programme;
1.1.6. On the basis of the assessment of the status of
the marine environment and the features of good
environmental status of the Baltic Sea established,
to prepare a draft amendment to the Strategy for the
Protection of the Baltic Sea Environment and to its
Action Plan.
1.2. To engage in closer cooperation with
1.2.1. To prepare and approve an amendment to
other countries in the Baltic Sea region and
Order No D1-251 of the Minister of Environment of
area on issues of environmental protection of the Republic of Lithuania of 16 May 2005 “On the
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Implementing bodies
2010
Ministry of Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
2010
Environmental Protection Agency
2012
Environmental Protection Agency
2012
Environmental Protection Agency
2014
Environmental Protection Agency
2014
Ministry of Environment
2010
Ministry of Environment
Objectives
Tasks
Actions for implementing the tasks
approval of the composition and the Regulations of
the Helsinki Commission National Committee”
(Official Gazette, 2005, No 64-2318), to renew the
composition of the Helsinki Commission National
Committee, to review and, where appropriate, to
amend the Regulations with a view to ensuring the
effective functioning of the Helsinki Commission
National Committee.
2.1. To ensure that the treatment of
2.1.1. To prepare an amendment to the Regulation
wastewater discharged from all municipal
on Wastewater Treatment approved by Order No
wastewater treatment facilities directly or
D1-236 of the Minister of Environment of the
indirectly to the marine environment should Republic of Lithuania of 17 May 2006 (Official
result in:
Gazette, 2006, No 59-2103; 2007, No 110-4522),
 at least 90% reduction of total phosphorus; taking into account HELCOM Recommendation No
28E/5 of 15 November 2007 “Municipal
 at least 75% reduction of total nitrogen;
Wastewater Treatment” and HELCOM
Recommendation No 28E/6 of 15 November 2007
“On-Site Wastewater Treatment of Single Family
Homes, Small Businesses and Settlements Up To
300 Person Equivalents (P.E.)”.
2.2.1. To initiate the ratification of amendments to
2.2. To reduce pollution from agricultural
Annex III “Criteria and measures concerning the
sources;
prevention of pollution from land-based sources” to
the Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the
Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1992
(Official Gazette, 1997, No 21-499) (hereinafter
‘Annex III to the Helsinki Convention’);
2.2.2. On entry into force of the Law on the
ratification of amendments to Annex III to the
Helsinki Convention, to prepare and approve
environmental requirements for farms with
livestock production above 100 livestock units, in
accordance with the requirements of Annex III to
the Helsinki Convention;
2.2.3. On entry into force of the Law on the
ratification of amendments to Annex III to the
Helsinki Convention, to prepare and approve an
amendment to the Rules for the issue, renewal and
cancellation of integrated pollution prevention and
control permits, approved by Order No 80 of the
Minister of Environment of the Republic of
Lithuania of 27 February 2002 (Official Gazette,
2002, No 85-3684; 2005, No 103-3829) (hereinafter
the ‘Rules for the issue, renewal and cancellation of
IPPC’), in accordance with the requirements of
Annex III to the Helsinki Convention;
2.2.4. On the basis of the HELCOM criteria, to
prepare a list of ‘hotspots’ with regard to pollution
from agricultural holdings or farms.
2.3.1. To prepare and approve requirements
2.3. To establish limits of phosphates in
establishing limits for the use of phosphates in
detergents;
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Implementing bodies
the Baltic Sea;
2. Objective two: to reduce inputs of
nutrients in the marine environment by the
year 2016 (compared to 1997–2003), in
particular nitrogen by 11 750 tonnes and
phosphorus by 880 tonnes, in order to
minimise human-induced eutrophication in
the marine area and to prevent adverse
effects thereof on the environment.
2011
Ministry of Environment
2010
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Agriculture
2011
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Economy
Objectives
Tasks
2.4. To avoid health risks from the
proliferation of cyanobacteria, macro-algae
and/or marine phytoplankton.
Actions for implementing the tasks
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Implementing bodies
domestic detergents as from the beginning of 2014,
taking into account HELCOM Recommendation No
28E/7 of 15 November 2007 “Measures Aimed at
the Substitution of Polyphosphates (Phosphorus) in
Detergents”.
2.4.1. To carry out monitoring of bathing water
2009–2011
Ministry of Health
quality and to prepare descriptions of its
Municipalities
characteristics.
Objectives
Tasks
3. Objective three: to aim at preventing
3.1. To identify substances hazardous for the
concentrations of hazardous substances in the marine environment and their sources;
Baltic Sea from giving rise to pollution
effects and causing adverse changes in
ecosystems.
3.2. To reduce and, where appropriate, to
limit or prohibit inputs of hazardous
substances into the Baltic Sea.
Actions for implementing the tasks
3.1.1. To conduct investigations of the status of the
marine environment to identify substances
hazardous for the marine environment;
3.1.2. To identify sources of substances hazardous
for the Baltic Sea environment and to propose
measures for reducing pollution by hazardous
substances.
3.2.1. To propose legislation necessary for
implementing the provisions of HELCOM
Recommendation No 28E/8 of 15 November 2007
“Environmentally Friendly Practices for the
Reduction and Prevention of Emissions of Dioxins
and Other Hazardous Substances from Small-Scale
Combustion”;
3.2.2. To review and supplement the laboratory
control plans of economic activities by the
investigation of substances relevant for the marine
environment as listed in the HELCOM Baltic Sea
Action Plan and specified in IPPC permits;
3.2.3. To prepare and approve an amendment to the
Regulation on Wastewater Treatment approved by
Order No D1-236 of the Minister of Environment of
the Republic of Lithuania of 17 May 2006 (Official
Gazette, 2006, No 59-2103; 2007, No 110-4522),
taking into account Directive 2008/105/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 16
December 2008 on environmental quality standards
in the field of water policy, amending and
subsequently repealing Council Directives
82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC,
84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and amending Directive
2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council (OJ 2008 L 348, p. 84);
3.2.4. To upgrade the database of substances by
establishing broader search criteria, harmonising
forms of information provision required under
different legislation or expanding the database, and
harmonising the provision of data with the
requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 18
December 2006 concerning the Registration,
Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of
Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European
Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC
and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93
and Commissions Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as
well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and
Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC,
93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ 2006 L 396, p. 1)
(hereinafter the ‘REACH Regulation’);
3.2.5. While implementing the REACH Regulation,
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Implementing bodies
2011
Environmental Protection Agency
2011–2013
Environmental Protection Agency
2010
Environmental Protection Agency
2010
Environmental Protection Agency
2010
Ministry of Environment
2010–2015
Environmental Protection Agency
2010–2015
Environmental Protection Agency
Objectives
5. Objective five: to achieve that shipping
and other (economic) activities in the Baltic
Sea are carried out in an environmentally
friendly manner.
Tasks
5.1. To ensure environmentally friendly
planning of economic activities (spatial
planning) in the Baltic Sea.
5.2. To ensure the implementation of
international requirements with a view to
reducing and eliminating unlawful pollution
from ships;
Actions for implementing the tasks
to create conditions for using information gathered
and the results of evaluation of registration
documentation and substances for measures
intended to reduce pollution of the Baltic Sea by
hazardous substances;
3.2.6. To analyse the possibility of limiting the
content of cadmium in phosphate fertilisers;
3.2.7. When transposing the provisions of newly
drafted European Commission directives regulating
the use of mercury, to enact restrictions and
prohibitions on the use of mercury in products and
processes in the Republic of Lithuania by drafting
amendments to Lithuanian Hygiene Standard HN
36:2009 “Prohibited and restricted substances”
(Official Gazette, No 2009, No 83-3451);
3.2.8. To ensure effective control of the
implementation of the requirements of Regulation
(EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 16 December 2008 on
classification, labelling and packaging of substances
and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives
67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (the REACH
Regulation) (OJ 2008 L 353, p. 1);
3.2.9. On entry into force of the Law amending the
Law on Protection of the Marine Environment, to
prepare and approve an amendment to the
legislative document of the Republic of Lithuania
LAND 46 A-2002 “The Rules for the Dredging of
Materials in Marine and Seaport Waters and for the
Management of Dredged Materials”, approved by
Order No 77 of the Minister of Environment of the
Republic of Lithuania of 26 February 2002 (Official
Gazette, 2002, No 27-976), taking into account the
requirements and practices applied by other Baltic Sea
countries.
5.1.1. To prepare a draft amendment to the Law on
Spatial Planning (Official Gazette, 1995, No 1072391; 2004, No 21-617), laying down the
requirements of spatial planning for the marine area;
5.2.1. When carrying out State inspections of
vessels at port and of the flag, to ensure the
implementation of the International Convention on
the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on
Ships, 2001;
5.2.2. To prepare and approve a procedure for
surveillance of the marine area with a view to
identifying illegal pollution incidents more
effectively;
5.2.3. To prepare and approve an amendment to the
Delivery date
2010
Implementing bodies
2011
Ministry of Economy
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Health
2010–2015
Environmental Protection Agency
2010
Ministry of Environment
2010
Ministry of Environment
2010–2015
Lithuanian Maritime Safety
Administration
Klaipėda Regional Environmental
Protection Department
2014
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Environment
Objectives
Tasks
Actions for implementing the tasks
Delivery date
Regulations of the Management of Ship-Generated
Wastes and Cargo Residues, approved by Order No
3-414/346 of the Minister of Transport and
Communications of the Republic of Lithuania and
the Minister of Environment of the Republic of
Lithuania of 9 July 2003 (Official Gazette, 2003, No
77-3535), taking into account HELCOM
Recommendation No 28E/10 of 15 November 2007
“Application of the No-Special-Fee System to ShipGenerated Wastes and Marine Litter Caught in
Fishing Nets in the Baltic Sea Area”.
5.3. To improve the safety of navigation with 5.3.1. To prepare a procedure for the
2010
a view to avoiding pollution incidents;
accommodation of ships in places of refuge;
5.4. To improve the system of response to
pollution incidents in the Baltic Sea;
5.3.2. To apply to the International Maritime
Organisation (hereinafter the ‘IMO’) and to carry
out an independent evaluation (a voluntary IMO
member state audit) of the implementation in
Lithuania of IMO conventions regulating the
prevention of pollution from ships.
5.4.1. To prepare and approve a procedure for the
issue of permits for control or reduction of pollution
and for scientific research in the maritime area;
5.4.2. To prepare and approve a joint LithuanianRussian Action Plan for response to pollution
incidents in the Baltic Sea;
5.4.3. Taking into account the results of the project
“Sub-regional risk of spill of oil and hazardous
substances in the Baltic Sea” (BRISK), to evaluate
the capacity of the system of response to pollution
incidents and, where appropriate, to establish the
necessary additional measures;
5.4.4. To supplement the Action Plan for response to
pollution incidents in the marine area, approved by
Order No V-1044/D1-673/1V-596 of the Minister of
Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, the Minister
of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania and
the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of
Lithuania of 9 November 2009 (Official Gazette,
2009, No 138-6099), with provisions on help to
animals affected by oil pollution;
5.4.5. To update the sensitivity maps of components
of the marine environment referred to in Order No
V-1044/D1-673/1V-596 of the Minister of Defence
of the Republic of Lithuania, the Minister of
Environment of the Republic of Lithuania and the
Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
of 9 November 2009 “On the approval of the Action
Plan for response to pollution incidents in the
Implementing bodies
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
2010
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Ministry of Defence
Klaipėda Regional Environmental
Protection Department
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Environment
Lithuanian Maritime Safety
Administration
Ministry of Environment
2010
Lithuanian Armed Forces
2013
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
2011
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of the Interior
2012
Environmental Protection Agency
2010–2013
Objectives
Tasks
Actions for implementing the tasks
marine area”, and to adapt them to actions of
response to pollution incidents in the Baltic Sea;
5.4.6. To evaluate the provisions of the Protocol on
Preparedness, Response and Co-ordination to
Pollution Incidents by Hazardous and Noxious
Substances, 2000 (OPRC/HNS 2000) and, where
appropriate, to initiate the ratification of this
Protocol;
5.4.7. To prepare and approve the Rules for the
investigation of pollution incidents in the sea by
official environmental inspectors.
5.5. To create legal conditions intended to
5.5.1. To prepare and approve an order of the
avoid harmful and disease-causing aquatic
Minister of Transport and Communications of the
organisms that are discharged into the marine Republic of Lithuania, the Minister of Environment
environment with ballast water of ships;
of the Republic of Lithuania and the Minister of
Health of the Republic of Lithuania “On the
management and control measures for ships’ ballast
water and sediments, intended to avoid harmful and
disease-causing aquatic organisms”;
5.5.2. To prepare and submit to the Government of
the Republic of Lithuania draft legislation on the
ratification of the International Convention for the
Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water
and Sediments, 2004.
5.6. To ensure the absence of pollution from 5.6.1. To continue cooperation with competent
offshore platforms and the minimum effect
authorities of the Russian Federation on the
on the environment from other offshore
environmental safety of operations in oil field D-6.
installations.
4. Objective four: to achieve a proper level of 4.1. To ensure the sustainable functioning of 4.1.1. To prepare nature management plans for
conservation of the Baltic Sea biodiversity.
marine ecosystems, so as to bring the
protected areas related to the marine environment;
occurrence, abundance and quality of
habitats and species in line with prevailing
4.1.2. To conduct biodiversity research necessary
hydrologic, geographic and climatic
for selecting territories for the Natura 2000
conditions, and to conserve the natural
ecological network in the exclusive economic zone;
marine and coastal landscape to the greatest 4.1.3. Based on the results of biodiversity research,
possible extent;
where appropriate, to prepare documents necessary
for designating territories for the Natura 2000
ecological network in the territorial sea and the
exclusive economic zone;
4.1.4. To continue monitoring of non-commercial
fish species;
4.1.5. To organise regular monitoring of all
wintering seabirds that form important gatherings;
4.1.6. To carry out monitoring of the porpoise
population in the marine area and to provide
information to HELCOM;
4.1.7. To prepare a procedure for research on the
impact of the fish stock on other animal and plant
species;
4.1.8. To establish requirements for fishermen to
register birds and animals caught in nets and to
Delivery date
Implementing bodies
2010
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
2011
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Ministry of Health
2011
Ministry of Transport and
Communications
2010–2015
Ministry of Environment
2010–2015
State Service for Protected Areas
under the Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Environment
State Service for Protected Areas
under the Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Environment
State Service for Protected Areas
under the Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Environment
2014
2011–2015
2010–2015
Ministry of Environment
2013–2015
Environmental Protection Agency
2014–2015
Environmental Protection Agency
2011
Ministry of Environment
2011
Ministry of Environment
Objectives
Tasks
Actions for implementing the tasks
provide information to the Ministry of
Environment;
4.1.9. To propose deterrent means for the interaction
of the conservation of seals and the fisheries sector.
4.1.10. To discuss possibilities for introducing
alternative techniques of fishing in the coastal zone
that reduce the mortality of wintering seabirds in
fishing nets;
4.2. To ensure that fish populations used for 4.2.1. To submit biological data on commercial fish
commercial purposes do not exceed safe
species to the International Council for the
biological limits and create conditions for the Exploration of the Sea for the assessment of the size
loss of biodiversity.
of commercial fish stocks and the status of their
populations;
4.2.2. To implement long-term plans for the
recovery and management of commercial fish
species.
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Implementing bodies
2012
Ministry of Environment
2012
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Environment
2010–2015
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Environment
2010–2015
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Environment