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Draft CCB Annual Activities Report 2017 For bibliographic purposes this document should be cited as: Coalition Clean Baltic, 2018. Annual Activities Report 2017. Uppsala, Sweden. Information included in this publication or extracts thereof are free for citation on the condition that the complete reference of the publication is given as stated above. © Copyright 2018 by the Coalition Clean Baltic Published in May 2018 by the Coalition Clean Baltic with a support of EU Life Programme and the Nordic Council of Ministers Address: Östra Ågatan 53, SE-753 22 Uppsala, Sweden +46 (0)18 71 11 70 Email: [email protected] URL: www.ccb.se Layout & Production: Coalition Clean Baltic 2 Draft CCB Annual Activities Report 2017 CONTENTS I. SUMMARY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORK PROGRAMME ................................................. 4 II. HIGHLIGHTS ........................................................................................................................................ 7 III. WORK PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES IN EACH POLICY AREA ..................................................................... 8 AREA A. WORKING UPSTREAM / WORKING ON LAND ......................................................................................... 9 A1. Water protection in Agriculture ....................................................................................................................... 9 A1.1 Nutrient resource management and nutrient runoff ................................................................... 10 A1.2 Industrial Animal Farming (IAF) ..................................................................................................... 15 A2. Hazardous substances .................................................................................................................................... 17 A2.1 Raising public awareness about pharmaceutical pollution .......................................................... 17 A2.2 Storm/rain water management ..................................................................................................... 20 A3. River Basin and Wastewater Management ................................................................................................... 22 A3.1 Turning River-Watch into River-Manage ............................................................................... 22 A3.2 Other point sources for nutrients............................................................................................ 32 AREA B. WORKING DOWNSTREAM / WORKING AT SEA AND COAST ....................................................................34 B1. Reaching Good Environmental Status - Implementing MSFD ........................................................................ 34 B1.1, B1.2 NGOs role in implementation of the MSFD Programme of Measures (PoMs) .................... 35 B1.3 Fisheries – Implementing the CFP and EU environmental policies ............................................... 36 B1.4 Aquaculture - Implementing the CFP and EU environmental policies .......................................... 39 B1.5 Harbour Porpoise and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) ............................................................... 41 B1.6 Sea-floor Integrity: marine sand and gravel extraction ................................................................. 44 B1.7 Marine Litter .................................................................................................................................. 47 B2. Introducing Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) ................................................................................................ 51 B2.1 Public participation in MSP ........................................................................................................... 52 AREA C. CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES, LAND-SEA INTERACTION .................................................................................54 C1 Baltic Salmon ................................................................................................................................................... 54 C2 European Eel ................................................................................................................................................... 58 C3 Alien Species ..................................................................................................................................................... 62 C4 Climate Change ............................................................................................................................................... 64 IV. ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING ........................................................... 66 FINANCIAL OUTCOMES .................................................................................................................................. 73 APPENDIX I. CCB CALENDAR OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EVENTS ............................................................... 74 APPENDIX II. LIST OF CCB PUBLICATIONS ....................................................................................................... 80 APPENDIX III. CCB SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH ................................................................................................ 83 3 Draft CCB Annual Activities Report 2017 I. SUMMARY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORK PROGRAMME 1. Objectives During 2017, CCB has been able to meet several short term objectives, and CCBs reputation and participations in EU and regional level work has continued to improve. The ambitions in the application has been well covered by CCBs activities. One of CCBs strengths is the consistency and long term commitment to see things through, to continue calling for transparency and public participation and holding countries accountable for what has been agreed. With this LIFE grant CCB has a unique opportunity to stay the path, continuing to push for balanced fertilization in agriculture, demanding adherence to scientific advice in setting fishing quotas and better protection of endangered species. At the same time CCB can address emerging issues such as pharmaceuticals, microplastic, MSP and climate adaptation. A consistent approach to CCBs three overarching objectives: holistic implementation of EU and regional policies, securing NGO and civil society participation, and smart use of public resources is crucial. In 2017, these CCB objectives have been met by: - Intensified work related to eel, demanding more from regional cooperation and supporting European Commission’s proposal to ban eel fishing - Continued awareness raising and focus on banning microplastics in consumer products, now openly supported by several countries also linked to SDG commitments - Establishment and chairing a new working group on ecosystem based management in BSAC and calling for and implementing two meetings during 2017. - Restarted interest in the Aarhus Convention among CCBs members due to pressures from industry (e.g. Nord Stream II) or even governments (i.a. Poland, etc.) - Finalising a comprehensive report on all recreational fishing in the BSR as a baseline report for discussions on rules, management and more harmonised data collection - Complementing official data on pharmaceutical pollution in the BSR with grassroot data on actual state-of-play with collection and disposal of obsolete medicines - Continued cooperation with NGOs outside CCB to influence development and implementation of EU policies such as technical measures (CFP), MSFD aquaculture. - More actors and experts agreeing that land-based aquaculture is the path forward - Providing grounds to circular economy path, instead of recirculation of accumulated old sins (internal loading at the Baltic Sea bottom) - Working with farmers to prove that targeted agri-environmental measures are capable in reducing nutrient runoff to meet HELCOM BSAP and EU Nitrates Directive goals - Creating demand for environmentally sound instead of industrially grown food - Calling for better use of joint resource in HELCOM related to finalising current BSAP and starting an update of the BSAP linked to MSFD with strong supported given in Commissions decision on criteria and methodological standards for GES (2017/848) - Chairing and increasing activity in the ASCOBANS Jastarnia group and targeted work to establish management in new N2000 area for harbour porpoise Most of the pursued objectives carry out a dual function of improving the environment by reducing pressures or protecting nature, and having potential in terms of climate adaptation. 2. Activities and means involved - CCBs participation in HELCOM working groups, with a considerable amount of written and spoken input to meetings, is important both to keep up demanding implementation but also an important arena to introduce new proposals, reports and facts. Port handling of fertilizers and riverine inputs of microplastic are examples of 2017 hot issues presented that have a potential for substantial pollution reductions, if further addressed by policy. - CCBs participation in BSAC has both the impact of watchdog function and function as arena to try to reach fishermen with joint proposals and get them engaged in a more ecosystem based management approach. - Broader public participation in management processes, would it be spatial planning on land or at sea, improvement of surface and groundwater quality, designation of nature protected areas or decision-making on large infrastructure projects, requires raising competence and expertise that 4 Draft CCB Annual Activities