With Sweden in the lead, the forum works with relevant Baltic Sea organisations including the BS RAC and HELCOM to strengthen police implementation and the integration of concerned stakeholders in fisheries management. At the core of the form is the High Level Group consisting of the fisheries directors of the Baltic Sea Member States and the director of Baltic Sea fisheries at the Commission.

· The transnational Baltic Sea Region Programme[27] (of which EU funding amounts to €217 million out of €278 million), finances the Bothnian 'Green Logistic Corridor' to connect northern Scandinavia and the Barents with end markets in the Baltic Sea region and central Europe;

By way of derogation from Article 1, Finland and Sweden may authorise the placing on their market of wild caught herring larger than 17 cm (Clupea harengus), wild caught char (Salvelinus spp.), wild caught river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) and wild caught trout (Salmo trutta) and products thereof originating in the Baltic region and intended for consumption in their territory with levels of dioxins and/or dioxin-like PCBs and/or non dioxin-like PCBs higher than those set out in point 5.3 of the Annex, provided that a system is in place to ensure that consumers are fully informed of the dietary recommendations with regard to the restri ...[+++]ctions on the consumption of wild caught herring larger than 17 cm, wild caught char, wild caught river lamprey and wild caught trout from the Baltic region and products thereof by identified vulnerable sections of the population in order to avoid potential health risks.

By way of derogation from Article 1, Finland, Sweden and Latvia may authorise the placing on their market of wild caught salmon (Salmo salar) and products thereof originating in the Baltic region and intended for consumption in their territory with levels of dioxins and/or dioxin-like PCBs and/or non-dioxin-like PCBs higher than those set out in point 5.3 of the Annex, provided that a system is in place to ensure that consumers are fully informed of the dietary recommendations with regard to the restrictions on the consumption of wild caught salmon from the Baltic region and products thereof by identified vulnerable sections of the popul ...[+++]ation in order to avoid potential health risks.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1941/2006 of 11 December 2006 fixing the fishing opportunities and associated fishing conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in the Baltic Sea for 2007 (3), fixes an amount of 10 794 tonnes of cod which may be fished in 2007 in the Baltic Sea (Subdivisions 25-32, EC-waters) by vessels flying the flag of Poland.

Purpose of the Report This report finds its origin in a Communication from the Commission to the Council, Orientations for a Union Approach towards the Baltic Sea Region (25 October 1994), which was adopted by the Council in its Council Conclusions on the European Union policy vis-à-vis the Baltic Sea Region . In the Conclusions the Council calls for the Commission to prepare .a report on the current state of and perspectives for the cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region . The report is a synthetic document reflecting: (a) the various existing and estimated contributions for the period 1991-94, and (b) an estimate of the indicative contri ...[+++]butions foreseen for the Baltic Sea Region from different sources for the period 1995-99.