Baltic Sea Region Integrated Coastal Zone Management Platform
In 2003 major Baltic ICZM actors, like HELCOM, Baltic 21, VASAB, the European Commission and national representatives met in Helsinki and founded the Baltic Sea Region ICZM Platform.
On their first meeting the participants came e.g. to the following conclusions:
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management should not be treated as a new instrument or procedure (similar to EIA) but rather as an efficient combination of different existing instruments (legal, financial, in-dicative etc.) which need proper co-ordination and calibration.
- The ICZM platform is to continue with the task of supporting the work done in separate countries. The main purpose of the platform should be exchange of information about ICZM work among BSR countries and pan-Baltic organisations....
- The continuation should be based on outline proposals prepared by B21, HELCOM, VASAB and the different Baltic countries and delivered to the participants before the next meeting (Concept of the BSR Platform for co-operation and communication in the field of ICZM).
- VASAB Secretariat is asked to start preparation of the BSR ICZM platform web-sites according to the proposals of B21 ("A concept for managing information flow within the ICZM Platform established by Baltic 21, HELCOM and VASAB")
