Appendix 3. Public meetings and meetings held with authorities in Finland and Estonia during Nord Stream 2 Finnish EIA
Table 1: Public meetings in Finland
Table 2: EIA Expert Group meetings during EIA Report phase
Table 3: Meetings held with the EIA coordinating authority
Table 4: Meetings held with Finnish authorities on special topics
Table 5: Meetings held with Estonian authorities
Table 6: Public meetings in Estonia
Table 1. Public meetings in Finland. Phase Date Meeting
EIA 2013-04-16 Public meeting in Helsinki in EIA Programme phase Programme 2013-04-17 Public meeting in Turku in EIA Programme phase phase 2013-04-18 Public meeting in Hanko in EIA Programme phase
2013-04-22 Public meeting in Kotka in EIA Programme phase
2013-04-24 Public meeting in Mariehamn in EIA Programme phase
EIA Report 2017-05-03 Planned public meeting in Kotka in EIA Report phase phase 2017-05-09 Planned public meeting in Helsinki in EIA Report phase
2017-05-10 Planned public meeting in Hanko in EIA Report phase
Table 2. EIA Expert Group meetings during EIA Report phase. Phase Date Meeting
EIA Report 2016-01-13 EIA Expert Group, 1st meeting phase 2016-06-15 EIA Expert Group, 2nd meeting
2016-10-07 EIA Expert Group, 3rd meeting
Table 3. Meetings held with the EIA coordinating authority. Phase Date Authorities Meeting topic
EIA 2012-11-12 ELY Centre Uusimaa Status meeting Programme 2013-01-22 ELY Centre Uusimaa Status meeting phase 2013-08-16 ELY Centre Uusimaa Coordinating authority statement on the EIA Programme
EIA Report 2015-09-17 ELY Centres Uusimaa and Southwest Status meeting phase Finland
2015-10-26 ELY Centre Uusimaa and Regional State Status meeting Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
2016-03-04 ELY Centre Uusimaa Status meeting
2016-05-03 ELY Centre Uusimaa, Finnish Status meeting Environment Institute (SYKE)
2016-09-06 ELY Centre Uusimaa and Regional State Status meeting Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
2017-01-27 ELY Centre Uusimaa , Finnish Preparations for EIA public hearing Environment Institute (SYKE), Ministry of the Environment
2017-03-22 ELY Centre Uusimaa , Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Ministry of the Environment
Table 4. Meetings held with Finnish authorities on special topics. Phase Date Authorities Meeting topic
EIA 2012-12-03 Several authorities Workshop on draft national EIA Programme Programme phase 2013-01-30 Ministry of the Environment and ELY Marine management plan Centre Uusimaa
2013-02-05 Ministry of Transport and Maritime transport strategy Communications
2013-02-07 Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) Marine spatial planning
2013-05-22 Several authorities EIA Programme
2013-05-23 ELY Centre Uusimaa Expert meeting
EIA Report 2015-09-16 Ministry of the Environment Project presentation phase 2015-09-29 Several authorities Open authority meeting, project presentation
2015-11-13 Uusimaa ELY Centre and Regional State Joint meeting for consolidation of EIA Phase Date Authorities Meeting topic
Administrative Agency for Southern and permitting procedures (OHKE) Finland
2015-12-02 City of Kotka, ELY Centres Uusimaa and EIA and permitting regarding Kotka Southeast Finland and Ministry of the coating plant Environment
2015-12-03 ELY Centre Uusimaa and Finnish Sediment modelling Environment Institute (SYKE)
2015-12-04 ELY Centre Uusimaa and Finnish Marine management plan and Environment Institute (SYKE) underwater noise
2015-12-08 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and Underwater noise ELY Centre Uusimaa
2016-01-22 Ministry of the Environment, Regional Marine spatial planning Councils of Kymenlaakso and Southwest Finland, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and ELY Centre Uusimaa
2016-01-26 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and EIA presentation ELY Centre Uusimaa
2016-03-04 Uusimaa ELY Centre, Finnish Sediment and oil spill modelling Environment Institute
2016-05-25 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Modelling of sediment dispersion Finnish Meteorological Institute, ELY Centre Uusimaa
2016-06-02 Ministry of Transport and Ship traffic and risk assessments Communications and Finnish Transport Agency
2016-06-06 Ministry of the Environment Espoo scope and international consultations
2016-06-10 Regional State Administrative Agency for Status meeting Southern Finland
2016-06-10 Ministry of Employment and the Status meeting Economy
2016-08-19 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) Long-term monitoring stations
2016-08-26 Ministry of Defence, Finnish Defence Military areas and cultural heritage Forces and Finnish National Board of Antiquities
2016-11-18 Finnish Transport Agency, ELY Centre Impacts on ship traffic Uusimaa
2016-11-21 Finnish Environment Institute, ELY Underwater noise and impacts on Centre Uusimaa marine mammals
2016-12-12 Metsähallitus, ELY Centre Uusimaa Underwater noise and impacts on Phase Date Authorities Meeting topic
marine mammals
2017-01-30 Regional State Administrative Agency Status meeting
2017-02-03 Energy Authority Project presentation
2017-02-17 Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency Project presentation and certification (Tukes)
2017-04-25 Several authorities Planned meeting to present EIA report
Table 5. Meetings held with Estonian authorities. Phase Date Authorities Meeting topic
EIA Report 2015-11-30 Marine Systems Institute (Estonia) Sediment modelling phase 2015-12-01 Estonian Ministry of the Environment Project presentation and Espoo consultations
2016-06-07 Marine Systems Institute (Estonia) Sediment modelling
2016-06-30 Estonian Ministry of the Environment Status meeting
Table 6. Public meetings in Estonia. Phase Date Meeting Meeting topic
EIA 2013-05-30 Public meeting in Tallinn in EIA Espoo consultation and presentation of Programme Programme phase the Finnish EIA programme phase
EIA Report May 2017 Proposed public meeting in Tallinn in EIA Espoo consultation and presentation of phase Report phase the Finnish EIA report