HELCOM achievements
•Political achievements
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•Environmental achievements:
• - Joint monitoring and
  assessment programmes • - Network of Baltic Sea
  Protected Areas
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-Better protection to prevent
- and respond to pollution from ships
-- Stricter control on industry
•- Improved treatment of
• wastewater
•- Hot Spots programme, etc.
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• à All resulting in visible improvements of the Baltic Sea, fauna and flora in the Baltic Region
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