External meeting

4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025)

October 28, 2025

External meeting

4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025)

Start date: October 28, 2025

End date:  October 30, 2025

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Place: Riga, Latvia

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4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025)
Official meetings of all HELCOM Working and Experts Groups and other subsidiary bodies are postponed due to the HELCOM strategic pause until further notice, however, informal consultation sessions, without Russian participation, are organized and hosted by a Contracting Party.
The informal consultation sessions process and discuss documents and provide guidance and recommendations as to how to progress work.

Description

While official meetings and other events of all HELCOM Working and Expert Groups and other subsidiary bodies are postponed due to the HELCOM strategic pause until further notice, informal consultation sessions, without Russian participation, can be organized and hosted by a Contracting Party.

The 4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025) was held in Riga, Latvia, on 28-30 October 2025.

The Session was attended by Delegations from Denmark, Estonia, the EU, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden, and by Observers from Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB), John Nurminen Foundation as well as invited guests from Chalmers University, EUSBSR Policy Area Safe and the EUSBSR Policy Area Ship.

CCB Participant in the meeting
- Mikhail Durking, CCB Executive Secretary

Participation supported by

CCB's participation in the event was supported by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither
the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them.

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