1. 1 CCB - Activities Enforcing Sustainable Oil Business Development in the Baltic Sea Region SOLUTIONS - Mr Gunnar Norén Executive Secretary to Coalition Clean Baltic Presentation at the CCB Baltic Conference 2004 – OIL TRANSFER ON THE BALTIC SEA – CONFLICTS AND SOLUTIONS

2. 2 Baltic Sea Hot Spots – Hazards and Possibilities for the Baltic Sea Region” One of the identified trends and areas of special concern for Baltic Sea environment was: Many threats to Baltic Sea and coastal areas – new oil- terminals, harbours, etc CCB produced in 2002 the CCB year-book

3. 3 CCB produced in 2003 the CCB year-book “ Harmful installations in the Baltic Sea Region” incl topics: - Increased Maritime Safety for the North and the Baltic Sea - Oil Transportation and Oil Terminals in the Northern part of the Baltic Sea - LUKOIL company: Imitation of a good image – plans for oil extraction outside Kaliningrad A CCB Priority Area: “Prevention of installations and transports harmful to the Baltic Sea environment and coastal areas”

4. 4 Trends - increased density of shipping in the Baltic Sea Area - raised interest to buy Russian oil - export of Russian oil products on the world market - main expansion of Russian oil export through Baltic Sea Prestige oil-tanker - first loaded in Russian Primorsk-terminal - later loaded, by a ship from Klaipeda, off-shore the Latvian coast outside Ventspils

5. 5 Recent political decisions on Baltic Sea Oil Transport * IMO – designation of the Baltic Sea as a PSSA (Particularily Sensitive Sea Area), April 2004 * Despite Russian Federation tried to stop such decision * Next step – within Baltic Sea Region develop proposals for requirements-restrictions for Baltic Sea shipping * Baltic shipping restrictions for PSSA, to be adopted by IMO in 2005

6. 6 What will come ? Discussions start e g within HELCOM - Mandatory pilotage - Traffic routeing - Places of refuge network in Baltic Sea - Rapid response capacity - combating - Double-hull vessels - Strengthening of Port state control ?

7. 7 No Oil shipping without oil-terminals and harbours on land CCB presented a “Future oil map of the Baltic region” in 1995 Decisions on oil-transport start with spatial planning in coastal zones

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9. 9 Butinge oil-terminal, Lithuania

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13. 13 New approach to Stop expansion of Russian Oil-terminals By-pass with oil pipelines from Russia to the Atlantic Use and expand existing oil pipeline system from Russia to East-Germany, (e g to Rotterdam) Baltic Sea would be relieved from expanded Russian oil export Transport of oil in pipelines, on land or in the sea, is much more safe, than oil shipping transport on the sea Agreement between EU and Russia - no more expansion of Baltic Russian oil-terminals - Russia is guaranteed an oil-terminal at the European Atlantic coast, incl. full Russian control and same profitability for Russian oil-companies Possible solution?

14. 14 Alien Aquatic Species and Ballast Water Threats from alien aquatic species have been discussed for many years. No concrete measures/recommendations to prevent unintentional introductions have been decided on by HELCOM - Global Ballast Water Management Programme/IMO has developed advice on step- wise actions for better control of ballast water - Such actions has been adopted by some sea- areas and many countries - Unfortunately - NO such actions for better control of ballast water has been adopted in Baltic Sea

15. 15 Proposals for HELCOM action: - Mandatory information on ballast water situation for all ships arriving to all Baltic harbours ( simple fill in of formats from GloBallast Programme)