The scope of activities covers the implementation of recommendations prepared by the Interministerial Team for threats resulting from hazardous materials deposited in the maritime areas of the Republic of Poland, approved by the Council of Ministers on January 19, 2022. As a result of the work carried out, the Team developed the following recommendations for the Council of Ministers. 1. Appointment, by a new ordinance of the Prime Minister for the period until 2027 with the possibility of extension, of a team for hazardous materials deposited in the maritime areas of the Republic of Poland, whose task would be, in particular, to coordinate the cooperation of ministries responsible for activities related to monitoring and neutralization of hazards caused by dumped hazardous materials. 2. Securing financing sufficient to support the team's work and carrying out the operations to screen and neutralize the two most threatening wrecks: Franken and Stuttgart. 3. Commissioning the team to prepare a draft of special regulations (at the statutory level) comprehensively regulating the issues related to the possible removal of threats caused by hazardous materials submerged in the maritime areas of the Republic of Poland. It is initially assumed that: - the works will use the achievements and experience of the Baltic countries, including Poland, - the principles of prioritizing research will be determined on the basis of the current knowledge about the distribution and nature of threats, - on the basis of the established hierarchy of priorities, subsequent facilities and areas will be successively examined, - monitoring studies will cover, among others, the condition of the facilities and the risk of sudden releases, the distribution of toxic substances concentrations around the facilities, the risk of substance migration, substance concentrations and their impact on living organisms, - each time the result of the research will be recommendations for further treatment of the facilities, including the determination of the latest permissible dates for subsequent tests, - annual amounts will be allocated to monitoring tests, ensuring the possibility of a thorough analysis of all potential threats related to the deposition of oil derivatives, conventional ammunition and chemical weapons on the seabed within a dozen or so years.

The WWF has been running the web fishing programme since 2011. Research institutions and fishing organisations are involved in this type of activities. However, there is still a lack of a systemic approach and the actions taken are carried out on too small a scale. In 2019, the MARELITT Baltic project was completed, which developed m.in best practices for abandoned fishing gear and its disposal. The action will consist in the continuation of work related to the fishing of nets in cooperation with fisheries associations with financial support from external funds on the model of the Operational Programme """"Fisheries and Sea"""" for the years 2014-2020. The action will include the financing and organisation of actions to retrieve lost fishing gear. In order to make the most of the experience and conclusions of the MARELITT project presented in the document """"The Baltic sea blueprint"""", including m.in recommendations aimed at facilitating the removal of fishing nets: - Provision of reception facilities in fishing ports, including separate containers or storage facilities for used or fishfish caught from the sea. - Provision of pre-processing sites in fishing ports where nets can be dismantled and large objects and lead links removed. - Carry out regular collection 2-4 times a year, depending on the volume of waste in the form of nets fished from the sea, along the coast in each country, from port to port, in order to minimize collection costs and avoid empty transports. - Establish a sorting system from existing waste sorting companies to enable the disposal of nets removed from the sea. - Supporting alternative treatment technologies in existing incineration or other rendering plants, e.g. steam reforming or pyrolysis used for electronic and hospital waste, which can also process spectrum networks. Inclusion in the competition regulations under EU funds and national measures of recommendations from the environmental impact assessment carried out as part of the MARELITT Baltic project (regarding the method of catching waste – lost or otherwise lost fishing nets). We also propose to add a provision on the exclusion of Natura 2000 sites from the scope of operation and to carry out an analysis of areas to be designated for the action of catching lost fishing gear, i.e. recognition of waste accumulation areas in accordance with the methodology from the MARELITT Baltic project. In order to obtain uniform, consistent data allowing for analysis, it is proposed to establish a requirement to report the results of actions to retrieve lost fishing gear - type of net, location, etc.

The activity consists in carrying out surveys of representative installations emitting significant amounts of heavy metals into the air or water. These reviews should take the form of joint ventures by external experts and the plant's services, aimed at identifying weak points in the environmental economy, resulting in the emission of heavy metals. It is initially assumed that the activities will cover commercial power engineering installations, steel, zinc and lead smelters, zinc and lead mines and selected municipal wastewater treatment plants. The analysis will cover, inter alia, the processes of wastewater treatment, exhaust gas dedusting, flue gas desulphurization, management of leachate from heaps and reduction of dusting from heaps. Methods to improve these processes in specific installations will be proposed, as well as more general guidelines for reducing heavy metal emissions from individual industries, as well as possible indications for changes in the regulations on the permissible levels of metal releases. These guidelines should then be used by environmental authorities issuing integrated permits, possibly permits for waste water discharge, air emissions or waste management. It is assumed that the participation of enterprises in the action will be voluntary. The selection of installations to be included in the action should take into account, inter alia, the will to cooperate, the current emission level and the representativeness of the technologies used by individual plants for solutions in a specific industry.

All KTM 15 measures within II update of River Basin Management Plans for Odra River and Vistula River, in particular (in reference to river water bodies and transitional and coastal waters) the following measure categories: RW: RWP_06 (measures aimed at water management inspections and reviews of water permits), RWP_09 (measures related to the update of the environmental protection program in terms of efficiency improvement concerning the reduction of pollutant inflows to the water body) TW/CW: -

All KTM 21 measures within II update of River Basin Management Plans for Odra River and Vistula River, in particular (in reference to river water bodies and transitional and coastal waters) the following measure categories: RW: RWP_01 (Wastewater management measures related to the reduction of municipal pressures (in agglomerations and non-urbanized areas)), RWP_09 (measures related to the update of the environmental protection program in terms of efficiency improvement concerning the reduction of pollutant inflows to the water body) TW/CW: TWCWP_01 (Wastewater management in agglomerations – a measure related to the implementation of KPOSK (groups of measures related to improving water quality and reducing the inflow of pollutants from municipal sources)), TWCWP_04 (rainwater management - measure concerning non-urbanized areas (groups of measures related to improving water quality and reducing the inflow of pollutants from municipal and industrial sources))

All KTM 3 measures within II update of River Basin Management Plans for Odra River and Vistula River, in particular (in reference to river water bodies and transitional and coastal waters) the following measure categories: RW: RWP_02 (control measures of agricultural activities - control measures of the implementation of the Nitrate Program and related to the use of plant protection products), RWP_04 (educational measures for farmers dedicated to water bodies where sources of agricultural pressure contributing to poor water status have been identified) TW/CW: -