Analysis and management of ecological risk for marine ecosystems and people in the Baltic Sea region

Presently there exists a contradiction, on the one hand, between the findings of the Commission of HELCOM CHEMU (1996) stating the lack of threat for the marine ecosystems and population from the submerged in the Baltic Sea chemical weapon (CW) and, on the other hand, the statements of a number of politicians of the Baltic States (among others, Prime-minister of Sweden) about the impermissibility of constructing underwater gas pipeline North Stream due to extremely high environmental threat caused by the possibility of inflow of toxic agents (TA) from the areas of submersion of (CW) into the nearby environment.