External meeting

8th Informal Consultation Session of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (IC HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 8-2026)

21 April 2026

8th Informal Consultation Session of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (IC HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 8-2026)

External meeting
Maritime

Start date: 21 April 2026

End date:  23 April 2026

Time: 11:00 - 15:00

Place: Tallin, Estonia

Address:

8th Informal Consultation Session of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (IC HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 8-2026)
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

The 8th Informal Consultation Session of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (IC HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG 8-2026), hosted by Estonia, will take place on 21 - 23 April 2026 in Tallin.

CCB Participant in the meeting
- Andrea Cervantes, CCB Biodiversity Officer

CCB's participation will be about
- Identification of Renewable Acceleration Areas (RAAs) in the Baltic Sea in accordance to RED III
- Outcomes from the event: From conflict to coexistence: Exploring multi-use between offshore wind and small-scale fisheries in the context of the Ocean Act
- Eklipse report on the impacts of offshore wind farm expansion and GES consequences
- SEABAS Workshop on SEA consultation best practices and Espoo contacts
- Coalition Clean Baltic´s submission to the EU Call for Evidence on the Ocean Act

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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