HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group Eleventh Meeting Riga, Latvia, 30 September-1 October 2015

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1 HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group Eleventh Meeting, 30 September-1 October 2015 Document title Upcoming meetings within HELCOM Code 7-2-Rev.1 Category INF Agenda Item 7 - Future work and meetings Submission date Submitted by HELCOM and VASAB Secretariats Reference Background This document contains a list of upcoming meetings within HELCOM, and has been completed with upcoming meetings within VASAB, as well as other relevant / major meetings and events in to facilitate scheduling of activities of HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG. This document replaces document 7-2. Action required The Meeting is invited to make use of the list of upcoming meetings and when scheduling the next meeting of HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG as well as other activities. Page 1 of 5

2 List of meetings in the framework of HELCOM and VASAB as well as other meetings in Date and place August 2015 Tallinn, Estonia August 2015 Magdeburg, Germany 31 August - 1 September Warnemunde, Germany 8 September 2015 Swinoujscie, Poland 9 September 2015 Linköping, 9-11 September 2015 Pomeranian Bay/Swinoujscie, Poland September September 2015 Gdansk, Poland September 2015 Stralsund, Germany September 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark 25 September 2015 online 28 September September 2015 [30 September 2015 TBC 30 September-1 October October October 2015 Name of Meeting 2015 Baltic SCOPE project, LV-EE-SE case, 2 nd planners meeting Meeting of Executive Secretaries of European Water Commissions Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Eleventh Meeting of the HELCOM Expert Working Group on Response on the Shore (EWG SHORE ) EUSBSR Seed Money project "Smart Coast" final meeting HELCOM BALEX DELTA Exercise Coastal Landscapes - Baltic Landscape Forum 2015 Sixth Meeting of the Joint HELCOM/OSPAR Task Group on Ballast Water Management Convention Exemptions (HELCOM-OSPAR TG BALLAST ) Conference Progress in marine conservation in Europe (PMCE 2015) ICES Annual Science Conference Third Meeting of the Expert Working Group on Oiled Wildlife Response (EWG OWR ) WEEK 40 Baltic Scope partner meeting and steering group meeting Baltic Scope kick-off conference Joint HELCOM/Monalisa Workshop back to back with SAFE NAV ] Eleventh Meeting of the joint HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group (HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG ) Sixth Meeting of the HELCOM Group of Experts on Safety of Navigation (HELCOM SAFE NAV ) First Meeting of the Baltic Sea Region MSP Data Expert Group (BSR MSP Data EG) Page 2 of 5

3 6 October 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark 7-9 October 2015 [Denmark] WEEK 41 Conference Drivers for Blue growth in the Baltic Sea Region" Third Meeting of the Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area (PRESSURE ) 9 October 6 th Meeting of GEAR IG PoM (online) 20 October 2015 Oostende, Belgium October 2015 Vladivistok, Russia October 2015 Istanbul, Turkey 22 October 2015 Riga 27 October 2015 Lodz, Poland October 2015 Warsaw, Poland First European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Open Conference: Consolidating the Foundations, Building the Future Oiled Wildlife Response Expert Group Meeting of the NOWPAP MERRAC Annual Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans Meeting of the Baltic Assembly VASAB CSPD/BSR 70 th meeting GEAR IG PoM Workshop and GEAR WEEK 45 WEEK 46 [First half of November 2015] EU workshop on MSP and environment 5-6 November 2015 Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea (GABBS) Conference Stralsund, Germany 5-6 November 2015 EU Marine Strategy Coordination Group meeting 9-13 November 2015 Helsinki, Finland November November 2015 Helsinki November 2015 Germany November 2015 Lithuania Third Meeting of the HELCOM Working Group on the State of the Environment and Nature Conservation (STATE & CONSERVATION ) Conference on sustainable in-land aquaculture and Best Available Techniques (BAT) HELCOM Workshop on standards for nutrient content in manure 4 th Meeting of the Project for the development of the second holistic assessment of the Baltic Sea (HOLAS II ) 15th Meeting of the Maritime Working Group (MARITIME ) November 2015 EU Marine Directors meeting Page 3 of 5

4 26-27 November 2015 Warsaw, Poland November 2015 HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG , 7-2-Rev.1 3rd Meeting of the Group on Ecosystem-based Sustainable fisheries (FISH ) MSP Member States Expert Group 11 December 2015 EUSBSR 3 rd NC-PAC/HAC-EC Meeting (PACs Energy, Transport, HACs Spatial Planning, Neighbours) WEEK 48 WEEK December 2015 Germany [10-11 December 2015] HELCOM Secretariat February (Week 7) Tallinn, Estonia 17 February 2016 London [February/March Gdansk, Poland] 8-9 March 2016 Poland [9 March 2016 Helsinki (MCC) - tbc March 2016 Helsinki (MCC) [15-17 March 2016 Stockholm, ] March 2016 St. Petersburg, Russia early April 2016 [Estonia] April 2016 (tbc) two last weeks of May 2016 Russia May 2016 (exact place tbd) May Turku, Finland 9 th Meeting of the ad hoc Seal Expert Group (SEAL ) 49th Meeting of the HELCOM Heads of Delegation (HOD ) 2016 Baltic SCOPE project, 3 rd planners meeting Inter Secretariat meeting of Regional Seas Conventions, European Maritime Safety Agency and DG ECHO VASAB CSPD/BSR 70th meeting and Workshop on Assessment of MSP Roadmap Annual Meeting of the Informal Working Group on Aerial Surveillance (IWGAS 2016) HELCOM Stakeholder Conference] HELCOM st Meeting of the Response Working Group (RESPONSE ) 17 th Forum of the Baltic Sea Days Third Meeting of the Group on Sustainable Agricultural Practices (AGRI ) Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on Reduction of Pressures from the Baltic Sea Catchment Area (PRESSURE ) 27 th Meeting of the Expert Working Group for Mutual Exchange and Deliveries of AIS & Data (AIS EWG ) Sixth Meeting of the Expert Group on Monitoring of Radioactive Substances in the Baltic Sea (HELCOM MORS EG ) European Maritime Day Page 4 of 5

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