The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (the OSPAR Convention), to which the UK is a party, agreed a strategy to ‘prevent pollution of the maritime area by continuously reducing discharges, emissions and losses of hazardous substances with the ultimate aim of achieving concentrations in the marine environment near background values for naturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-made synthetic substances.’

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