External meeting
4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025)
28 October 2025
4th Informal Consultation Session of the Maritime Working Group (IC WG MARITIME 4-2025)
External meeting
Maritime
Start date: 28 October 2025
End date: 30 October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Place: Riga, Latvia
Address:
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.
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
CCB's participation at the meeting on
- Stop new oil and gas extraction in the Baltic Sea
- UN Ocean Conference 3 - CCBs side event - Quiet Seas in a Climate Transition - Aligning decarbonisation with Ocean Health
- Outline for the discussion of amending Baltic Sea PSSA with new APMs based on BSAP
- Draft HELCOM Recommendation on BAT BEP to minimize nutrient losses from dry bulk fertilizer storage and handling in ports in the Baltic Sea Region
- Draft revised HELCOM Recommendation 22.3
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.
CCB positions reflected in these materials are not automatically transferred and do not reflect HAVs position on these topicsUN Ocean Conference 3 - CCBs side event - Quiet Seas in a Climate Transition - Aligning
decarbonisation with Ocean Health
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
CCB's participation at the meeting on
- Stop new oil and gas extraction in the Baltic Sea
- UN Ocean Conference 3 - CCBs side event - Quiet Seas in a Climate Transition - Aligning decarbonisation with Ocean Health
- Outline for the discussion of amending Baltic Sea PSSA with new APMs based on BSAP
- Draft HELCOM Recommendation on BAT BEP to minimize nutrient losses from dry bulk fertilizer storage and handling in ports in the Baltic Sea Region
- Draft revised HELCOM Recommendation 22.3
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.
CCB positions reflected in these materials are not automatically transferred and do not reflect HAVs position on these topicsUN Ocean Conference 3 - CCBs side event - Quiet Seas in a Climate Transition - Aligning
decarbonisation with Ocean Health
