HELCOM Moscow Ministerial Meeting

Moscow, Russia, 20 May 2010

Programme and Agenda

09:00 - 09:25     Opening of the Meeting by the Chairman of HELCOM

09:25 - 09:30     Adoption of the Agenda

09:30 - 11:00     Official statements

Statements by the HELCOM Contracting Parties

Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden

Statements by HELCOM Observers

Coalition Clean Baltic - CCB (also on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature - WWF), Baltic Farmers' Forum on Environment - BFFE, International Council for the Exploration of the Seas - ICES

Other statements

Nordic Investment Bank - NIB (also on behalf of Nordic Environment Finance Corporation - NEFCO)

11:00 - 11:30     Open issues/discussion between Ministers

11:30 - 11:35     Adoption of the HELCOM Moscow Ministerial Declaration

11:35 - 11:50     Presentation

HELCOM Initial Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea, 2003-2007, and the Report on the Ecological Coherence of the Network of Marine Protected Areas in the Baltic Sea

11:50 - 12:15     Break

12:15 - 12:25     Private-Public Partnership in the Baltic Sea region

Information on implementation of commitments given during the Baltic Sea Action Summit on 10 February 2010: Nord Stream AG; Data and Information Fund

12:25 - 12:35     Presentation

Establishment of Ingermanlandskiy state reserve

12:35 - 13:00     Transference of HELCOM Chairmanship

Closure of Meeting

13:15 - 14:00     Press conference (45 min.)