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HaV meeting – Fisheries regulation in MPAs
The meeting on fisheries regulation in MPAs, organized by Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, took place in Göteborg on 3-4 October 2019. Nils Höglund, CCB Fisheries Policy Officer, and Ida Carlén,…
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HELCOM Workshop on the analyses of Sufficiency of Measures (SOM) for Fish
The HELCOM Workshop on the analyses of Sufficiency of Measures (SOM) for Fish will took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 4-6 November 2019. The objective of the Workshop is to…
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21th CBSS Expert Group Meeting
The 21th CBSS Expert Group meeting on Sustainable Development (EGSD) took place in Helsinki on 17 October 2019. Main topics of discussions were: – the focus of the Danish Priority on…
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BSAC Joint Working Group
The BSAC Joint Working Group meeting will be held on Tuesday 29th October 2019 at the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, ul. Kołłątaja 1, 81-332 Gdynia. It will start…
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19th Meeting of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group
The 19th Meeting of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 18-2019) will be held in St Petersburg, Russia, on 28-29 October 2019. The Meeting will be focused…
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Salmon River fest in Olkhovka
The River fest was organized by “Friends of Neman” organization and the Center for Environmental Solutions (CES), and took place in Olkhovka, Belarus, on 28 September 2019.
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Workshop: Transboundary solutions to a common challenge of pharmaceutical, microplastics and mercury pollution within Western Bug & Neman river basins
The workshop “Transboundary solutions to a common challenge of pharmaceutical, microplastics and mercury pollution within Western Bug & Neman river basins” took place in Lviv, Ukraine, at Bankhotel…
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Workshop – Agri-environmental measures: education and engagement of young farmers
The workshop “Agri-environmental measures: education and engagement of young farmers” took place in Lviv, Ukraine, at Bankhotel on 13 October. Related documents: – Agenda of the workshop – Directions…
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Lviv Organic & Natural Fair
The “Organic & Natural Fair” tooki place in Lviv, Ukraine, on 12-13 October, from 11:00 to 18:00. The event was organized by CCB Member Ecoterra. More info also on
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7th EMSEA Conference
The 7th Annual EMSEA (European Marine Science Educators Association) took place on 16-20 September at EXPOLAB in São Miguel, Azores, Portugal. Marine educators, communicators and scientists participated in an interactive…
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SOM Biodiversity: Marine Mammals workshop
The HELCOM Marine Mammals workshop was held on 26-27 September in Helsinki, Finland. More info are available here.
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MSP Forum “Global meets regional”
Maritime Spatial Planning Forum “Global meets regional”, organised together by VASAB, IOC UNESCO, EC DG-MARE and Pan Baltic Scope collaboration, will serve as a joint event of the 4th…
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HELCOM State & Conservation 11-2019
The 11th Meeting of the Working Group on the State of the Environment and Nature Conservation will be held on 21-25 October in Riga, Latvia. More info will be available…
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BALTFISH forum
The BALTFISH forum was held on 4 September in Helsinki, Finland. More info are available here. A joint NGOs (CCB and FishSec) press briefing was held
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Clean Games – Baltic Cup
Clean Games are team competitions on collecting litter and sorting it out. An exciting game with prizes, where participants solve environmental puzzles, search for artifacts, collect and sorting litter,…
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XV UBC General Conference “Building an inclusive and resident-focused city. The Baltic way”
The XV UBC General Conference “Building an inclusive and resident-focused city. The Baltic way” will be held on 15–18 October 2019 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Themes of the conference include…
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Conference: “MARINE MAMMALS: Science education”
On August 21st scientists presented results of EU-funded project “MARINE MAMMALS: Science education” in Kiel. MARINE MAMMALS is an EU-funded project to further increase young people’s interest in natural…
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CCB Board Meeting
The next CCB Board Meeting took place in Lviv, Ukraine at Bankhotel on 12-13 October 2019. Related documents: – Provisional Agenda – Directions to Bankhotel
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BSAC Ecosystem based management working group Meeting
The BSAC Ecosystem Based Working Group took place on 18th – 19th September at the Danish Agriculture and Food Council in Copenhagen and focused on the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action…
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HELCOM Workshop with River Basin Management Authorities
The HELCOM Workshop with river basin management authorities was held on 18-20 September 2019 in the premises of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in Riga, Latvia….
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Second HELCOM Marine Protected Areas Management workshop
The workshop took place on 9-12 September in the Archipelago house Varppi, Västerö, Maxmo, outside of Vaasa in Finland. The purpose of the second HELCOM MPA managers workshop was to…
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Joint OSPAR-HELCOM workshop on incidental bycatch WS 1-2019
The joint OSPAR-HELCOM workshop took place on 3-5 September in Copenhagen and examined possibilities for developing indicators for incidental by-catch of birds and marine mammals. More info are available
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PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (PIE)
The macro-regional workshop on PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (PIE)– Monitoring, consumption, WWTP technologies and policies was held on 19th September (10:00-17:00) at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, in Stockholm, Sweden. The…
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CCB MPA management workshop
On 23 September 2019, CCB organized a workshop on the best practice in management of habitats and species in Baltic Marine Protected Areas, in Hamburg, Germany. The main aim…
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EWG 19-07: Review the implementation of the EU regulation on the incidental catches of cetaceans
The “EWG 19-07: Review the implementation of the EU regulation on the incidental catches of cetaceans” took place at JRC-Ispra, Italy, on 17-21 June. CCB Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Officer…
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Kick-off meeting – “Free Baltic Rivers” project
CCB arranged a kick-off meeting for the “Free Baltic Rivers” project in Pärnu, Estonia, on 23 May. The meeting was held back to back with “Let it Flow”…
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The Greener Agriculture for a Sustainable Sea Conference – GRASS 2019
The Greener Agriculture for a Sustainable Sea conference was held in Warsaw, Poland, on 25-26 September 2019. Back to back to the Conference, a study trip to the farm of…
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57th Meeting of the HELCOM Heads of Delegation
The 57th Meeting of the HELCOM Heads of Delegation will be held on 09-10 December 2019 in Helsinki. More info will be available soon.
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HELCOM Pressure 11-2019
The 11th Meeting of the Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area will be held on 23-25 October 2019. More info will be available…
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13th Meeting of HELCOM Expert Group on Marine Mammals
The 13th Meeting of HELCOM Expert Group on Marine Mammals was held in Helsinki on 24-26 September 2019. More info and…
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ASCOBANS – 8th Meeting of the North Sea Group
The 8th Meeting of the ASCOBANS North Sea Group was held in Stralsund, Germany, on 15 September 2019. The meeting addressed tasks stated under the ASCOBANS Conservation Plan for…
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ASCOBANS Advisory Committee (AC25)
The 25th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee (AC25) was held on 17-19 September 2019 in Stralsund, Germany. The Provisional Agenda and other documents can also be found…
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CBSS EXPERT GROUP Sustainable Development – Baltic 2030
The 20th Meeting of the of the Expert Group on Sustainable Development (EGSD) – Baltic 2030 took place in Riga, Latvia, on 28th May 2019. The mandate of the Expert…
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ICES ANNUAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2019
The Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2019 took place at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre and Gothia Towers in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the conference hundreds of…
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BSAC meeting on future Common Fisheries Policy
At this meeting, after the Executive Committee, there was a discussion on the future Common Fisheries Policy, in order to produce a communication from the BSAC to the Commission….
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Towards solutions for sustainable shipping and boating: better biofouling and ballast water management
The stakeholder conference “Towards solutions for sustainable shipping and boating: better biofouling and ballast water management” will be organized by the COMPLETE project in Jurmala, Latvia, on 4-5 December…
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BALTFISH Forum
The BALTFISH Forum was held on 3rd June in Stockholm. The agenda and related documents are available here.
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IUCN Regional Conservation Forum 2019
The IUCN Regional Conservation Forum for Europe, North and Central Asia, took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 1 to 3 July 2019, as part of Union-wide preparation for…
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BSAC Joint Working Group on TACs
This meeting focused on the ICES advice for fishing stocks in the Baltic for 2020 and it took place at the Danish Agriculture and Food Council, Axelborg. Provisional agenda and…
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HELCOM Workshop on Seal-Fisheries Interactions
The HELCOM Workshop on Seal-Fisheries Interactions (SFI WS 1-2019) was organized in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the premises of Eigtveds Pakhus (Asiatisk Plads 2 G, 1448 Copenhagen K), on 27…
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3rd Meeting of Range States for the European Eel
This 3rd meeting of Range States for the European Eel was held on 25-26 June in Malmö, Sweden. The Meeting began to discuss a draft text of a possible…
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HELCOM Fish
The Tenth Meeting of HELCOM Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable Fisheries (FISH 10-2019) was organized in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Asiatisk Plads 2,…
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HELCOM HOD 56-2019
The 56th Meeting of the Heads of Delegation (HOD 56-2019) was held on 18-19 June 2019 in Helsinki, Finland, at the premises of the HELCOM Secretariat (Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,…
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Swedish Marine and Water Management Conference
The SwAM Conference will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4- 5 June. The theme of the conference is about opportunitets for climate adaptation. We will also raise current issues…
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Budapest Water Summit 2019
Hungary, under the patronage of H.E. Mr János Áder, President of Hungary, will host the Budapest Water Summit 2019, a high-profile conference and exhibition between 15 and 17 October…
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BALTFISH Workshop on fisheries management of eels in the Baltic Sea
The BALTFISH workshop on the management of eel was organised back to back with the BALTFISH CEG (ControlExpertGroup) Workshop on Control of eel (7th May) and took place on 8th…
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Our Ocean 2019
The conference will bring together leaders from governments, businesses, civil society and research institutions to share their experience, identify solutions and commit to action for clean, healthy and productive…
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BSAC Executive Committee and General Assembly
BSAC Executive Committee and General Assembly took place at the Danish Agriculture and Food Council, Copenhagen on 14-15 May 2019. More info and related agenda are available here.
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Let it Flow! International seminar on dam removal
Let it Flow! the seminar took place at the Strand SPA and Conference Hotel in Pärnu, Estonia on 22-23 May 2019. On the first day, The Environment Agency of Estonia…
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Transboundary Daugava river rafting/kayaking expedition
The Transboundary Daugava river rafting/kayaking expedition took place on 14 to 17th May, 2019 on river Daugava (close to Belarus/Latvia border). The expedition was organised by “Environmental Protection Club of…
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