Baltic Sea

Activities around the Baltic Sea

 

	Convention (& amendments)	Protocol
Denmark	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Estonia	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Finland	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Germany	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Latvia	Party (& to both amendments)
Lithuania	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Poland	Party (& to both amendments)	Party
Russian Federation
Sweden	Party (& to both amendments)	Party

Subregional workshops between 3rd and 4th sessions of the Meeting of the Parties held in

• Stockholm, 20-21 October 2005
• Copenhagen, 8 November 2006

Subregional workshops between 4th and 5th sessions of the Meeting of the Parties: Holding two meetings (2008-2011), including on climate change in EIA and SEA, biodiversity, cumulative impacts, marine ecosystems, protected marine areas, marine spatial planning, transboundary EIAs, public participation, post-project analysis, access to justice, application of transboundary SEA:  

• 22-23 October 2009, Vilnius
• 31 March - 1 April 2011, Espoo (Finland)

Subregional workshops between 5th and 6th sessions of the Meeting of the Parties: Holding at least two meetings, on issues such as: Biodiversity and water management; Cumulative impacts (especially of off-shore wind farms); Climate change in EIA and SEA; Marine ecosystems and protected marine areas; Marine spatial planning and SEA; Case studies on transboundary EIAs and SEAs, including large-scale projects and nuclear installations; Enhanced application of the Convention and the Protocol — common understanding or agreements;  Experience of large-scale transboundary projects with several Parties of origin; Transboundary access to justice by the public and NGOs; Post-project analysis and monitoring; Carbon capture and storage; Efficiency of resources in EIA and SEA; Implications of the review of the EIA Directive by the EU on the Convention and Protocol defining “likely significant effects” under the Protocol (case studies).

• 27-28 October 2011, Sopot (Poland)
• 20-21 September 2012, Tallinn (Estonia)
• 17-18 October 2013, Rostock (Germany) (postponed)
• 6-7 November 2014, Berlin (Germany)
• 28-29 September 2015, Vilnius (Lithuania)
• 8-9 December 2016, Riga (Latvia)
• 27 October 2020, Online (organized by Denmark)
• 3 November 2021, Online (orgnized by Estonia)
• 14-15 June 2022, Warsaw, Poland

 

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