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25.05.2017

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This HELCOM Group?s fourth meeting,3-4 April 2017, decided in particular how to take forward the HELCOMcommitment to define guidelines/recommendations for national manurestandards (now expected to be achieved by 2019), discussed developmentsin national nutrient accounting, nutrient losses from agriculture,implementation of the EU BAT BREF for intensive rearing of pigs andpoultry, and addressed implementation of the nutrient recycling actionsdefined in the HELCOM Recommendation Rec 38-1 ?Sewage sludge handling?, 1st March 2017 (see ESPP eNews n°9).The Group is producing an overview of national nutrient recyclingpolicies in Baltic countries and (with the HELCOM PRESSURE Group) ofnational policies on reuse of phosphorus in sewage sludges (by September2017). The Group agreed on the ?need of clear definition for nutrientrecycling? and to start by ?elaboration of strategy and definitions?,The Group also decided to send a questionnaire to HELCOM countries tocollect data on nutrient flows and potentials for reuse (by October2017). Lead countries for these actions are Germany and Finland.

HELCOM Baltic Marine EnvironmentProtection Commission ?Outcome of the Fourth Meeting of the Group onSustainable Agricultural Practices (AGRI 4-2017)?, 3-4 April 2017 https://portal.helcom.fi/meetings/AGRI%204-2017-419/MeetingDocuments/Outcome%20of%20AGRI%204-2017.pdf

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