Annex II: Charting how Priority Areas and Horizontal Actions address each Objective

1 European Council Conclusions of 14 December 2007, point 59: ‘Without prejudice to the integrated maritime policy, the European Council invites the Commission to present an EU strategy for the Baltic Sea region at the latest by June 2009.This strategy should inter alia help to address the urgent environmental challenges related to the Baltic Sea. The Northern Dimension framework provides the basis for the external aspects of cooperation in the Baltic Sea region’.

2 http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/communic/baltic/com_baltic_en.pdf.

3 http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperate/baltic/pdf/council_concl_30102009.pdf.

4 http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/communic/baltic/com_baltic_2012_en.pdf.

5 http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/genaff/131228.pdf.

6 Common set of roadmaps between the EU and Russia. There are 4 common spaces: Common economic space, Common space of freedom, security and justice, Common space of external security, Common space of research and education, including cultural aspects.

7 For an extended discussion of the role of integrated governance in the Baltic Sea region, see WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme, Counter Currents: Scenarios for the Baltic Sea, WWF 2012.

8 By the Member State is meant the national administration. It is strongly preferred that a national policy coordination is led by the Prime Minister’s office or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure coherent development and implementation of the EUSBSR among the involved institutions.

9 The Member States are appointing priority area focal points (line ministries, agencies, other national/regional institutions) for each priority area of the EUSBSR. See tasks of the priority area focal points.

10 If there is a priority area coordinator/horizontal action leader appointed in the Member State for the particular priority area/horizontal action, no priority area focal point/horizontal action focal point is required.

11 For this purpose, a steering committee/coordination group should be set-up and chaired by the priority area coordinator(s). A group should be composed of representatives of all Member States and other Baltic Sea region states, when relevant, as well as experts in the area concerned. It’s up to members of group to decide on internal rules of the steering committee. The group should meet at least twice a year and support priority area coordinator(s) in implementation of the tasks referred.

12 For this purpose, a steering committee/coordination group should be set-up and chaired by the horizontal action leader(s). A group should be composed of representatives of all Member States and other Baltic Sea region states, when relevant, as well as experts in the area concerned. It’s up to members of group to decide on internal rules of the steering committee. The group should meet at least twice a year and support horizontal action leader(s) in implementation of the tasks referred.

13 A body in charge of the implementation of a programme/ financial instrument is the institution or the authority (at international, national, regional or local level) responsible for the management and implementation of the respective programme or financial instrument.

14 Under exceptional circumstances projects with less than three countries involved could be considered.

15 BONUS 2010-2016. The Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme. http://www.bonusportal.org/bonus_2010-2016.

16 Council Conclusions on the review of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, 15 November 2011. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperate/baltic/pdf/council_conclusions_eusbsr_15112011.pdf.

17 Eutrophication is defined here as the enrichment of water by nutrients, especially compounds of nitrogen and/or phosphorous, causing an accelerated growth of algae and other forms of plant life to produce an undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water and to the quality of the water concerned.

18 WWF (2012). Counter Currents: Scenarios for the Baltic Sea 2030.

19 Commission Communication on Blue Growth opportunities for marine and maritime sustainable growth of 13 September 2012 (COM(2012) 494 final.

20 Decision 862/2010/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the participation of the Union in a Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme (BONUS) published in the Official Journal on 30.9.2010 (OJ L 256).

21 Towards an ecologically coherent network of well-managed Marine Protected Areas – Implementation report on the status and ecological coherence of the HELCOM BSPA network (2010), BSEP 124B: http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/Proceedings/bsep124B.pdf.

22 Salmon and Sea Trout Populations and Rivers in the Baltic Sea – HELCOM assessment of salmon (Salmo salar) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) populations and habitats in rivers flowing to the Baltic Sea BSEP 126 A, country-wise reports.

23 Ibid.

24 List of original salmon populations with low or impaired reproduction (traffic light lists; see above - BSEP 126 A, p. 57 and country-wise reports).

25 Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds.

26 Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.

27 Council Regulation (EC) No 812/2004 adopted in April 2004 laying down measures concerning incidental catches of cetaceans in fisheries and amending Regulation (EC) No 88/98.

28 OSPAR is the organisation established by the Convention for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic, to which 15 countries and the European Union are Contracting Parties.

29 http://www.marsuno.eu managed under the EUSBSR priority area ‘Safe’, coordinated by: Denmark and Finland; the proposed potential flagship project.

30 Call for proposals MARE/2012/17.

31 DG ENTR SEC-2013.3.5.3-2 Testing the interoperability of Maritime Surveillance systems – Pre-Operation Validation.

32 BASREC (initiated in 1999) includes the Governments of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden. The European Commission is represented by DG Transport and Energy. The participation in this work also involves the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM).

33 NORDEL was the collaboration organisation of the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Their mission was to promote the establishment of a seamless Nordic electricity market. NORDEL was rounded up 1 July 2009 and all operational tasks were transformed to ENTSO-E.

34 The NDPHS Strategy on Health at Work aims to help ensure good social and work environments and prevent lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases using the workplace as an effective arena for promoting a healthy lifestyle.

35 A joint project for the European research area. ESS Scandinavia is a consortium working to ensure ESS will be built in Lund. The consortium consists of all the universities and colleges in the Öresund region, a number of other leading universities and research institutes in Scandinavia as well as Region Skåne, Lund Municipality, Copenhagen Capacity and the Öresund Committee.

36 http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/score/docs/score18_en.pdf.

37 According to 2006 Eurobarometers, http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/strategy/index_en.htm#061204.

38 http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:27849-2012:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=1.

39 Willing to participate: DK, EE. SE, FI – focusing on certain sectors.

40 Willing to participate: DK, EE. DE – only as regards PCP.

41 Bo G. Gustafsson et al. 2012, Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication 1850–2006,

Directory: shared
shared -> Us history eoc review
shared -> Water from the rock marist spirituality
shared -> In this issue
shared -> -
shared -> In this issue
shared -> Manheim Auctions’ Executive Management Bios Hal Logan, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Industry Relations, Manheim
shared -> Mike Mularkey Head Coach
shared -> Social Psychology Applied To Life Homework Assignment
shared -> Advancing research in second language writing through computational tools and machine learning techniques: a research agenda
shared -> Standard pricing table