External meeting
Kick-off Meeting of the ad hoc HELCOM Platform on sufficiency of measures
February 28, 2019
External meeting
Kick-off Meeting of the ad hoc HELCOM Platform on sufficiency of measures
Start date: February 28, 2019 9:00 AM
End date: March 1, 2019
Place: Helsinki, Finland
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What is HELCOM?
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – also known as the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) – is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and a regional sea convention in the Baltic Sea area. HELCOM was established about four decades ago to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all sources of pollution through intergovernmental cooperation. The HELCOM Secretariat is located in Helsinki, Finland. To know more about it.
Description
The Contracting Parties to the Helsinki Convention and the HELCOM Observers to the Kick-off Meeting of the ad hoc HELCOM Platform on sufficiency of measures (SOM Platform 1-
2019), which was held in Helsinki, Finland, at the premises of the HELCOM Secretariat (Katajanokanlaituri 6b) on 28 February-1 March 2019.
HOD 55-2018 Meeting agreed that the work on analyses of sufficiency of measures for the update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan will be carried out via an interdisciplinary platform for the implementation of the analyses (SOM Platform), which is to engage the existing HELCOM ESA (social and economic analysis) network, national technical experts on the topics to be addressed by the platform, and the Chairs of HELCOM Working Groups. The topics covered by the SOM platform are hazardous substances, marine litter, underwater sound, nonindigenous species and biodiversity except for MPAs which are covered by the HELCOM ACTION project.
More info and related documents are available here.
2019), which was held in Helsinki, Finland, at the premises of the HELCOM Secretariat (Katajanokanlaituri 6b) on 28 February-1 March 2019.
HOD 55-2018 Meeting agreed that the work on analyses of sufficiency of measures for the update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan will be carried out via an interdisciplinary platform for the implementation of the analyses (SOM Platform), which is to engage the existing HELCOM ESA (social and economic analysis) network, national technical experts on the topics to be addressed by the platform, and the Chairs of HELCOM Working Groups. The topics covered by the SOM platform are hazardous substances, marine litter, underwater sound, nonindigenous species and biodiversity except for MPAs which are covered by the HELCOM ACTION project.
More info and related documents are available here.