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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


  1. Status of chapter on dumped munitions/lost cargo Name 4/23/2015 Surname 2

  2. EUROPOL warns of increase in illegal waste dumping (2011) • increase in the volume of illegal waste shipments across borders • illegal waste trafficking and disposal activities have become one of the fastest growing areas of organised crime • exceptional margins: ‘low risk – high profit’ • illegal trafficking of waste is particularly rising between countries in North West and North East Europe Name 4/23/2015 Surname 3

  3. Baltic history of waste dumping • 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) Name 4/23/2015 Surname 4

  4. Situation today? • 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. Name 4/23/2015 Surname 5

  5. Potential Collaboration? • 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? Name 4/23/2015 Surname 6

  6. Thank You! hermanni.backer@helcom.fi www.helcom.fi HELCOM BALEX DELTA 2011/Bornholm, Denmark (photo by Juris Skrube, Latvia)

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