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The European Union has initiated a project to prepare a common maritime policy. It aims at improving the Union’s capabilities to respond to the challenges presented by globalization, competitiveness, climate change, pollution of the marine environment, maritime safety, energy security and sustainable development. At Sweden’s initiative, the European Union is currently preparing a Baltic Sea strategy, a process to which Finland and Estonia have made a valuable contribution. One of the aims of the strategy is to define the main priorities of cooperation. Mostly likely, the strategy will be adopted during Sweden’s EU presidency in the latter half of 2009. Several other international organizations, projects and funds are involved, in one way or another, in the efforts to solve the environment problems affecting the Baltic Sea (ICES, EEIG, BONUS, Coalition Clean Baltic, Clean Baltic Sea Fund of John Nurminen Foundation, Baltic Sea Action Group, Baltic 21, etc.). The Gulf of Finland is one of the most polluted areas of the Baltic Sea. Estonia, Finland and Russia have engaged in research cooperation on the issues related to the Gulf for a long time. Estonia and Finland have played a prominent part in the Bonus+ Baltic Sea Research Programme co-funded by the EU. Russia’s involvement in the research is of great importance to the success of the project. Although it is sometimes said that the Baltic Sea is the world’s most thoroughly researched sea, a number of current problems call for concentrated local efforts. The problems encountered on the Gulf of Finland are exactly that. Estonia and Finland shoulder the main responsibility for ensuring that both countries have a comprehensive overview of the state of the Gulf and its evolution. In Estonia and Finland, responsibility for marine research and maritime issues rests with several authorities, institutes and ministries. While ensuring greater coordination of the data, it is also important to make rational use of all the resources required for marine research. Estonia’s and Finland’s common interests regarding the Gulf of Finland are multi-faceted ranging from the safety of shipping to environmental protection and security issues. Advocating these shared interests calls for coordinated cooperation and the continuous exchange of information between the competent authorities and institutions of the two countries. 38
Recommendations: • A Estonian-Finnish inter-governmental maritime council should be established to harmonize the maritime policies of the two countries and coordinate the actions taken by ministries and government agencies in the field maritime safety, environmental protection and security. • The Estonian and Finnish institutes engaged in marine research should be merged to create a joint co-owned marine research centre. Both countries would own exactly half of the centre. 39
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