BSPC

Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

Rapporteurs

According to the BSPC Rules of Procedure, the BSPC Standing Committee can set up ad hoc bodies and functions, such as Working Groups, Observers and Rapporteurs on specific issues, where appropriate.

Rapporteurs follow and report on developments in their particular fields of expertise and inform the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference about their work as they see fit.

The lineup of BSPC Rapporteurs can be found in the current BSPC Work Programme.

News about Rapporteurs’ activities are listed below; Rapporteurs’ reports, speeches and other documents are found on the right-hand side.

Parliamentarians against Human Trafficking meet in Stockholm

On March 15, the Swedish Parliament hosted a seminar on regional cooperation of the police in anti-trafficking work, arranged by the European network Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking (PAHT). The seminar attracted MPs, experts and NGOs from several European countries. Johan Linander and André Oktay Dahl, BSPC Rapporteurs on Trafficking in Human Beings, and Maria Stenberg, […]

Bretschneider at HELCOM 34/2013

Ms Sylvia Bretschneider, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, BSPC Co-Observer to HELCOM, attended the 34th HELCOM meeting in Helsinki 5-6 March. Addressing the meeting, Ms Bretschneider informed that she and Ms Christina Gestrin, BSPC Co-Observer to HELCOM, have submitted a letter to the HELCOM Chair containing a number of amendment proposals that could serve as input to the process […]

Roger Jansson addresses Cleanship Conference in Riga 19 september

“The BSPC will continue to provide political support to the Cleanship project” said Roger Jansson, Åland Islands, BSPC Co-rapporteur on Integrated Maritime Policy, in his address to the Clean Baltic Shipping conference in Riga 19-20 September. The conference attracted some 130 experts and decision-makers, discussing a wide range of issues such as non-emission ships, shoreside […]

BSPC at first meeting of BSLF ESC

The first meeting of the Enlarged Steering Committee (ESC) of the Baltic Sea Labour Forum (BSLF) took place in Hamburg on 20th April. The BSLF is one of the outcomes of the Baltic Sea Labour Network project, which was concluded in 2011, and in which BSPC was Associate Partner. BSLF is a network for exchange […]

BSPC Maritime Rapporteur addresses EP Environment Committee on the Sulphur Emission Issue

On 16 February, the European Parliament Environment Committee will debate a proposal for a European directive aiming at adapting a European legislation on sulphur emissions to the stronger IMP regulations concerning the reduction of sulphur limits in marine fuels as from 1 January 2015 in SECAs. The Committee will also discuss the report on this […]

BSLN Final Conference

The Baltic Sea Labour Network (BSLN) project, in which BSPC is Associate Partner, held its Final Conference in Hamburg on 15-16 November, drawing over 200 representatives of various social partners from all over the Baltic Sea Region. A wide range of keynote speeches, working sessions and side events contributed to the success of the Conference, […]

BSLN advocates a Forum for social dialogue in the Baltic Sea Region

Franz Thönnes, member of the German Bundestag and BSPC’s representative in the Steering Committee of the Baltic Sea Labour Network, took part in the Committee’s meeting in Helsinki on 31st March. The BSLN Steering Committee advocates the establishment of a Forum for Social Dialogue in the Baltic Sea Region with the aim of influencing policy- […]

BSPC maintains support to the HELCOM BSAP

“BSPC will continue to support the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan as the central tool for the restoration of good ecological status of the Baltic Sea by 2021” says Christina Gestrin, Chairman of the BSPC, attending the HELCOM Ministerial Meeting in Moscow on 20 May. “Already at the Ministerial Meeting in Krakow in 2007, the […]

Social dimension has central role

“We will only be able to exploit the great opportunities provided by our economic potential here in the North if the social climate is also right.” This was one of the main messages of Franz Thönnes, member of the Bundestag and member of the BSPC Standing Committee in his address to the 17th BSSSC Annual […]

Keep in touch

BSPC Secretary General Bodo Bahr | Schlossgartenallee 15 | 19061 Schwerin | Germany | +49 171 5512557 | bodo.bahr@bspcmail.net