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munitions/lost cargo Name 4/23/2015 Surname 2 EUROPOL warns of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
munitions/lost cargo Name 4/23/2015 Surname 2 EUROPOL warns of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Status of chapter on dumped munitions/lost cargo Name 4/23/2015 Surname 2 EUROPOL warns of increase in illegal waste dumping (2011) increase in the volume of illegal waste shipments across borders illegal waste trafficking and
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- increase in the volume of illegal waste
shipments across borders
- illegal waste trafficking and disposal activities
have become one of the fastest growing areas
- f organised crime
- exceptional margins: ‘low risk – high profit’
- illegal trafficking of waste is particularly rising
between countries in North West and North East Europe
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EUROPOL warns of increase in illegal waste dumping (2011)
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- Illegal waste dumping commonplace during
the 1950s
- Radioactive waste -examples:
– Report on radioactive waste dumping in the Sea by IAEA (Baltic by SWE and RU) – Alleged dumping from Karosta naval Base (current Latvia) in swedish EEZ 1991-1994
- Mercury
– 20.000b / 10 ton Mercury in Sundsvall (Bothnian)
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Baltic history of waste dumping
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- Small compilation of internet browsing
- Requests on info set to HELCOM contact lists
- Requests sent to international organisations
– London Convention – Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm conventions – Interpol – WWF
- No replies so far.
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Situation today?
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- BS National contacts in Europol
”EnviCrimeNet”
- BS environmental prosecutors (ENPRO)
- +already contacted organisations
- Any tips of who could know something?
- Nordstream?
- Dedicated Meeting beginning of 2016 in
cooperation with some of the intl. actors?
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Potential Collaboration?
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HELCOM BALEX DELTA 2011/Bornholm, Denmark
(photo by Juris Skrube, Latvia)