Advice & Recommendations - Baltic Sea Advisory Council

Name	Summary	Date	Downloads
Baltfish Presidency draft supplementing Joint Recommendation on the mitigation measures to prevent bycatch of Baltic Proper harbour porpoise in the Baltic Sea fisheries	Sent date:12/07/2021 \| Reply date: The BALTFISH Presidency consultedthe BSAC on a draft supplementing Joint Recommendation 2 on harbour porpoise mitigation/protection measures. The BSAC reply is here Please contact Secretariat for the individual responses	12/07/21
BSAC reply to study on regionalisation	Sent date:12/07/2021 \| Reply date:n/a The Commission has commissioned a study on regionalisation of the CFP it’s being done by Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food/ Wageningen Marine Research and MRAG The BSAC Managment Team sent an answer (the BSAC ExCom has seen it and accepted it) Letter Click Answer Click All BSAC members were encouraged to take part individually in the study	12/07/21
BSAC recommendations for the fisheries 2022	Sent date:01/07/2021 \| Reply date:15/07/2021 Letter from the ExCom Chair to DG Mare Click BSAC recommendations Click REV version 5.7.21 Click Reply from DG Mare Click	01/07/21
BSAC letter about control of sulphur dioxide emissions from vessels	Sent date:17/06/2021 \| Reply date:28/07/2021 This came up during the ExCom meeting with the Control Agency The letter from the BSAC Click The reply from DG Mare Click	17/06/21
BSAC letter on how to improve the functioning of the ACs	Sent date:28/05/2021 \| Reply date: The ACs were asked to provide input to proposals from DG Mare to improve functioning of the ACs – on two things in particular: allocation of members within the ACs and a template for providing AC advice The BSAC ExCom Chair has written to DG Mare to send input from members Click	28/05/21
BSAC letter to DG Environment about EU Biodiversity Strategy	Sent date:23/04/2021 \| Reply date:21/06/2021 The BSAC ExCom Chair on behalf of the BSAC wrote to DG Environment about the activities of the Marine Expert Group and its work on the criteria and guidance for protected area designations Click Reply from DG ENV Click	23/04/21
BSAC letter to DG Mare about post-Brexit	Sent date:23/04/2021 \| Reply date:22/06/2021 Letter from the BSAC ExCom Chair on behalf of the BSAC about post-Brexit: stakeholder engagement and the potential impact of Brexit on the Baltic Click DG Mare replied to the letter from the BSAC Click Eight other ACs sent a letter which the BSAC refers to Click	23/04/21
BSAC reply to the Commission questionnaire on the functioning of the EU’s Technical Measures Framework Regulation.	Sent date:15/02/2021 \| Reply date:N/A The Commission has to report on the functioning of the EU’s Technical Measures Framework Regulation It wrote to all Advisory Councils and sent a questionnaire The BSAC ExCom chair has sent a letter And the BSAC has replied to the questionnaire Three members sent separate input: Swedish Pelagic Federation PO, Association of Fisheries Protection, National Chamber of Fish ProducersNo reply has been received from the Commission	15/02/21	BSAChairLetterDGMareTechnicalMeasures150221 BSACTechnicalMeasuresReplyFINAL15022021
BSAC recommendation on a trial fishery for stickleback in the Baltic	Sent date:01/02/2021 \| Reply date:12/02/2021 The BSAC ExCom chair sent a letter to DG Mare and Baltic Member States with a recommendation from the BSAC to initiate a trial fishery for stickleback in the Baltic The letter The recommendation Reply from DG Mare	01/02/21
BSAC letter on how to improve the functioning of the ACs	Sent date:11/12/2020 \| Reply date:01/02/2021 The ACs were invited to send to the Commission suggestions on now to improve the functioning of the ACs Letter from the BSAC Letter of appreciation from DG Mare Director General to all the ACs (an Inter-ACs meeting was held with the Commission on 18th January 2021 to present and dicuss this)	11/12/20
BSAC recommendations concerning mitigation measures for harbour porpoise	Sent date:5/10/2020 \| Reply date:N/A This is the letter from the BSAC ExCom chair to BALTFISH and to DG Mare Here are the recommendations The BSAC did not receive a reply to this Here’s the BALTFISH Joint Recommendation (sent to Commission December 2020) Click	05/10/20	BSACrecommendation harbourporpoiseFINAL20_21_22
Letter to BSAC from DG Mare about harbour porpoise	Sent date:26/9/2020 \| Reply date:N/A Letter from DG Mare to the BSAC Reply from the BSAC chair to DG Mare	26/09/20