About » OBJECTIVES
- Reduced nutrient run-off from agriculture production to inland waters and the Baltic Sea.
- Creationof an understanding for the need for full implantation of HELCOM BSAPactions and requirements related to animal farming, via dissemination ofinformation on the growth of industrial animal farming in the BalticSea countries, with focus on Poland, and the situation with fulfillingthe IE Directive requirements for intensive animal rearing
- Fullimplementation of the Helsinki Convention Annex III, Part IIregulations on 'Prevention of pollution from agriculture' in Baltic SeaRegion countries, with focus on nutrient-balanced fertilization formanure produced in installations for Intensive rearing of animals in theHELCOM Baltic Sea Region countries
- Fullimplementation of the action 'to establish by 2009 a list of Hot Spotsidentifying existing installations for the intensive rearing of cattle,poultry and pigs not fulfilling the requirements in the revised AnnexIII of the Helsinki Convention', agreed by all Baltic Sea Regioncountries governments and EC, within the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Planfrom 2007 (this agreed action is still not implemented at all in 2012.Nolist has been developed)
- Inclusionof real Best Available Techniques, including nutrient balancedfertilization requirements, in the EU revision process of BREF (BestAvailable Techniques reference document) documents connected to the IEDirective and industrial animal farms
- Fullimplementation the Directive on industrial emissions 2010/75/EU (IEDirective), former IPPC Directive, and coupled BREF-documents, relatedto intensive rearing of animals
- Providingowners of large-scale animal farms with proper information about how tocounteract to the negative effects of factory farming and to encouragethem to implement such measures
- Raisedpublic and decision-makers awareness, in terms of industrial animalproduction impact on the Baltic Sea catchment area natural environmentand the Baltic Sea
- Raisetheinterest with Industrial Animal Farm (IAF) - companies in Poland toapply more environmental sustainable practices for intensive animalrearing, with focus on nutrient-balanced fertilization practices formanure, to reach full implementation of the legally binding Annex III tothe Helsinki Convention, in the long-term perspective.
- Better implementation of the EU Nitrates directive in the Baltic Sea Region
- Raisedawareness with administrations and the public on environmental problemsat industrial animal farms and how to mitigate such problem
- To raise the awareness with administration and the public on bad water quality connection to manure at industrial animal farms.