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8 Acknowledgements 
The authors wish to express their sincere 
thanks to HELCOM MONAS for providing 
the organisational framework and financial 
support for the work of the MORS Project. 
In particular, the authors wish to thank the 
HELCOM Secretariat for their invaluable 
support during and in between the annual 
meetings of the group, and for their 
considerable patience and understanding. 
The authors also wish to express their 
gratitude to Prof. Pavel P. Povinec, University 
of Bratislava, Slovakia for providing scientific 
review of the Assessment and his valuable 
comments both on the scope and contents 
of the current assessment, as well as sound 
recommendations for the future work of the 
MORS Project. 
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