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STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting – preparing for a bigger CBRNE forum
STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting on 8-9 October 2018 in Riga was the third meeting in the project Strengthening the Transnational Capacity of the Management of CBRNE Agents related Emergencies, funded by the Swedish Institute. During the first two workshops, the partners identified common gaps and capability challenges in crisis management of hazardous substances in the…
CBSS at UNISDR Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework
The CBSS Secretariat’s Senior Advisor for Civil Security, Janusz Gąciarz took part in the Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by UNISDR in Bonn on 25-26 September 2018. The meeting gathered regional intergovernmental organisations from all continents to discuss the use of the Sendai…
PA Secure Newsletter 2018/3
The PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat presents the third issue of the Newsletter in 2018. We would like to share some news with you on important developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS Secretariat and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter…
Baltic Sea Task Force on Organised Crime (BSTF) meeting in Jūrmala
On 18-19 September 2018, representatives from Police, Customs and Border guards from all the CBSS Member States gathered in Jūrmala, Latvia for their last Operational Planning and Coordination Meeting,  before the handover to the German Chairmanship with operational support from Poland. The participants discussed irregular migration, lessons learned from the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, illicit…
Urban resilience in the Baltic Sea Region
On 6 September 2018, PA Secure was invited to participate in two VASAB workshops organised by the Latvian presidency – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in Liepaja, Latvia. The first workshop led by ESPON gathered information from the BSR stakeholders on what indicators are important for monitoring national and macro-regional development trends…
Civil Security team meets Swedish CBRNE actors
The CBRNE stakeholders meeting is organised by MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) twice a year for all actors in Sweden, dealing with CBRNE (hazardous materials) issues. This was the second appearance of the CBSS Secretariat’s Civil Security team at the meeting. In August 2018, Project Officer Nina Jernberg presented EUSBSR PA Secure work and the…
New project will bring research results to practitioners
Currently, in the field of civil security in the Baltic Sea Region, there is no common or standard mechanism for utilizing the results from research. This means that much of the output from extensive research projects is not reaching practitioners and is not contributing to saving human lives and valuable property. The new project Baltic Sea Region…