The participants of the Conference decide on the following:

1. The old chemical munitions dumped in the North European seas pose a potential environmental danger.

2. The scale of this environmental danger is not qualifiable at the present moment; steps should be undertaken urgently by the international community to provide a solid scientific assessment of the situation, which include the following:
   1. conduction of comprehensive investigation, with the technical means available now, to identify the dumping areas as precisely as possible; conduction of further searches in historical archives to complete the picture of dumping;

   2. conduction of repeated on-site investigation of individual dump areas to establish dynamically changing parameters;

   3. risk evaluation, including risks of bioaccumulation of chemical warfare agents in marine animals and potential genetical consequences.

3. Steps should be taken consequently to enable all interested countries to move towards a resolution of this dangerous situation, which should make provision for:
   1. selection of appropriate monitoring strategies;

   2. marking dumping sites and prioritize them depending on findings of research; education of fishermen about proper procedures in case of recovery of individual munitions;

   3. design and evaluation of the possible remedial strategies.

4. The regular working group on the problem should be established, to coordinate and comment on practical steps and necessary research, until an official international mechanism is elaborated.