EU Strategy for sustainable development:

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EU Strategy for sustainable development

• the usage of Baltic regions experience in Black
  sea region in frames of EU policy perspectives
• by Anna Bilous

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Object of the research

• EU strategy for sustainable development in sea
  regions

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Subject of the research

• Comparison of the Baltic sea region and the
  Black sea region policy in frames of outlining EU
  policys perspectives

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Groups of Questions of the Research Paper

• What are the global initiatives significant both
  for Baltic and Black sea regions?
• What are the main initiatives of EU policy for
  sustainable development for the Baltic sea region
  and for the Black sea region?
• How general perspectives of EU policy for
  sustainable development in Black sea region can
  be defined?

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Sustainable development

• development that
• "meets the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of
• future generations to meet their own needs."
• (the Brundtland Commission)

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Sustainable development ties together

• the carrying carpacity of natural systems,
• the social challenges facing humanity

environmental sustainability
economic sustainability
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Countries of the Baltic sea region

• EU Member States
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• Germany
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Poland (2004)
• Sweden

• Non-EU Member States
• Russia
• Norway
• Iceland

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Countries of the Black Sea region

• EU Member States
• Bulgaria (2004)
• Romania (2004)

• Non-EU Member States
• Georgia
• Russia
• Turkey
• Ukraine

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Initiatives for cooperation on sustainable
development
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EU level

• An Intergated Maritime Policy
• European Sustainable Development Network

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Baltic region

• Helsinki Convention (1974!)
• EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (2009)

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Black sea region

• Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea
  Against Pollution (1992)
• European Neighborhood policy (2004) and European
  Neighborhood and Partnership Policy (2007)
• Black Sea synergi (2007)

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General goal of the future EU policy in Black Sea
region

• to create a
• common
• platform for
• the cooperation in
• the sustainable
• development

• (1) EU can show itself as an influencial
  political actor in the region that is essentially
  important after the implementation of the Lisbon
  treaty
• (2) countries of the region will improve their
  indicators of development and economic
  prosperity
• (3) future generation will have a possiblity to
  live in sustainable Black sea region

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