Freitag, 15. Oktober 2021

BMU: Press conference: HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2021: Updating the Baltic Sea Action Plan

Press conference

HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2021:

Updating the Baltic Sea Action Plan

The HELCOM Ministerial Meeting 2021 (MM 2021) will be held in Lübeck, Germany on 20 October 2021. It will be hosted by Germany, which is currently holding the chairmanship of HELCOM. The updated Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) is due to be adopted during the MM2021. Ministerial Meetings are the highest decision-making level in HELCOM and are to be held every three years unless decided otherwise. The Ministerial Meetings are attended by the highest representatives of our Contracting Parties, namely by the Ministers of the Environment or Maritime Affairs of the nine Baltic Sea countries as well as by the EU Commissioner for the Environment. Find more information on helcom.fi

 

Date:

Wednesday, 20. October 2021, 14:30-15:00 MEST

 

Statements:

State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth, German Ministry for the Environment
Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for Environment
Lilian Busse, HELCOM chair
Till Backhaus, HELCOM vice chair, state minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)
Jan Philipp Albrecht, HELCOM vice chair, state minister of SchleswigSchleswig-Holstein (Germany)

Representatives from other HELCOM contracting parties will also attend the press conference.

 

The press conference will be conducted in English. Individual interviews may be offered after the press conference.

 

Journalists can attend the press conference online. We have reserved a small number of places for TV and radio at the hotel in Lübeck.

 

Please register by 5:00 PM on 19 October 2021 at the latest: presse@bmu.bund.de You will receive the link to the online conference with the confirmation of your registration.

 


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