ET EKSEMPEL PÅ INTERNATIONALT SAMARBEJDE OM AT BEGRÆNSE TILFØRSLEN AF NÆRINGSSALTE FRA LANDBRUG TIL ØSTERSØOMRÅDET / International Cooperation in Reducing the Discharge of Nutrients from Agriculture to the Baltic Sea Area – An Example
Eutrophication is one of the serious pollution problems in the Baltic Sea Area. The nutrients originate from different sources. Agriculture is one of the important sources. In 1985 The Helsinki Commission decided to establish an agriculture working group. The aim of the group was to draft recommendations on reduction in agricultural pollution. The working group has drawn up a compilation on the discharges of nutrients from agricultural areas and measures against this pollution in the different member states (Table 2). As national figures are not estimated by the same methods, it is difficult to compare the situation in the different states. But the compilation shows that agriculture is an important source to the leaching of nitrogen to the Baltic Sea Area. In some areas – especially in the northern part – the agriculture is also an important source to the phosphorus pollution. “Complete abstract not presented.”