21 BSPC Programme version 2012-08-28

|The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference |[pic] || | || | ||As done, 28.8.2012 | |ProgrammeThe 21st Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference”Energy, Ecology and Social Welfare:Cooperation for a Sustainable Development of the Baltic Sea Region”Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 26 – 28 August 2012Conference Venue: Mariinsky Palace, Grand Hall25 August, Saturday|Day |Arrival of Conference participants to Saint Petersburg || |Accommodation in hotels |26 August, Sunday|10.00 - 17.00 |Visit to the Oil Filling terminal "Lukoil" in Vysotsk, organized by "Lukoil Oil Company” ||Starting 11 a.m. |Accreditation at Ambassador Hotel and Petro Palace Hotel ||12.00 p.m. |BSPC Standing Committee Meeting || |(Mariinsky Palace, 1st floor, White Hall) ||15.00 p.m. |Departure from hotels || | || |Choice of two excursions: || | || |1. Visit to South-West Wastewater Treatment Plant; || |2. Visit to the new passenger port terminal Marine Façade ||19.00 p.m. |Reception hosted by Ms Valentina Pivnenko, Chair of the BSPC, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Federal || |Assembly of the Russian Federation Venue: Russian Kitch restaurant (25 Universitetskaya emb.) |27 August, Monday|Start 7.45 a.m. |Accreditation at Mariinsky Palace ||8.00 a.m. |1st Meeting of BSPC Standing Committee as Drafting Committee || |(Mariinsky Palace, 1st floor, White Hall) ||9.00 a.m. |OPENING OF CONFERENCE || |(Mariinsky Palace, 1st floor, Grand Hall) || | || |Songs by St Petersburg Children ́s Choir || | || | || |Chair: Ms Valentina Pivnenko, Chair of the BSPC, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Federal Assembly of the || |Russian Federation || |Co-Chair: Mr Vadim Tiulpanov, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly || |of the Russian Federation || | || |Welcome by Mr Ivan Melnikov, First Vice-Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian || |Federation || |Welcome by Mr Vyacheslav Makarov, Speaker of Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly; || |Welcome by Mr Vadim Tiulpanov, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly|| |of the Russian Federation || |Welcome on behalf of Mr Sergey Lavrov, Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Russia || |Welcome by Ms Valentina Pivnenko, MP, Chair of the BSPC. || | ||9.50 a.m. |FIRST SESSION || | || |Chair: Ms Valentina Pivnenko, Chair of the BSPC, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Federal Assembly of the || |Russian Federation || |Co-Chair: Mr Vadim Tiulpanov, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly || |of the Russian Federation || | || |Regional Partnership and Cross-Border Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region || | || |Report from the BSPC: Ms Valentina Pivnenko, Chair of the BSPC, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Federal || |Assembly of the Russian Federation || |Priorities of the Russian Presidency in CBSS, Mr Sergey Petrovich, Deputy Director of the 2nd European || |Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of Baltic|| |Sea States, Russia || |Report from the CBSS German Presidency: Mr Gerhard Almer, Ambassador for the German Presidency of the CBSS || |2011/2012, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany || |Mr Anatoly Zabrodin, Head of the Border Guard Department of FSB of Russia in the city of St. Petersburg and || |Leningrad region. || |The role of transport infrastructure in Northwest Russia in the development of trade and economic relations: Mr|| |Pavel Burtsev, Deputy Head of Oktyabrskaya Railway || |Address by Ms Ugne Kripaviciute, Representative of the 4th Baltic Sea Youth Session, Berlin April 2012. || | || |The Northern Dimension and the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region || | || |The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: Mr Jacek Protasiewicz, Vice-President of the European Parliament; || |North-West Russia 2020 Strategy: Mr Stanislav Lazovsky, Association North-West Russia, Saint-Petersburg || |Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership: Mr Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP Manager, EBRD; || |Nordic Council of Ministers & North-West Russia - Cooperation Activities: Mr Mika Boedeker, Director, Nordic || |Council of Ministers Office in St Petersburg; || |Ms Darya Akhutina, Acting Chairperson of the NGO Forum of the Baltic Sea. || | ||12.00 a.m. |Coffee break ||12.15 a.m. |Debate ||13.00 a.m. |SECOND SESSION || | || |Chair: Mr Franz Thönnes, Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany || |Co-Chair: Ms Susanna Huovinen, Parliament of Finland || | || |Environmental Health and Energy Cooperation || | || |Status of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan || | || |HELCOM BSAP: Ms Helle Pilsgaard, Denmark, Chair of HELCOM; || |Status report from the BSPC HELCOM Observer: Ms Christina Gestrin, MP, Finland; || |Mr Vladimir Lovtsov, Head of Economic Policy of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the || |Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District. || | || |Sustainable Tourism in the BSR || | || |Sustainable Tourism: Prof. Dr. Mathias Feige, Managing Director, Deutsche Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Institut|| |für Fremdenverkehr. || | || |Lunch at the Mariinsky Palace || | || |Environmental Cooperation ||14.00 a.m. | || |Ms Rublevskaya, State Unitary Enterprise "Saint-Petersburg Vodokanal"; ||15.00 a.m. |Disposal of chemical weapons in the Baltic Sea - a problem without a solution: Mr Maxim Shingarkin, Deputy of || |the State Duma, member of the Delegation to BSPC; || |The Cleanship Project: Mr Sten Björk, Project Manager, Port of Trelleborg, Sweden; || |Ms Evdokia Bychkova, Deputy of the State Duma, Head of the Regional Center on Environmental Policy and Culture.|| | || |Energy Efficiency and Green Growth || | || |Russia's state policy in the field energy conservation and energy efficiency: Mr Yury Lipatov, First deputy || |Chairman, Committee on Energy, State Duma, Russia; || |Green Growth and Business Opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region: Mr Hans Brask, Director, Baltic Development || |Forum; || |Nordic-Russian Green Growth Arena , A Project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers: Ms Elena Belova, || |Russian programme coordinator and Secretary General of “Leontief Centre”, International Centre for Social and || |Economic Research, St Petersburg; || |The New Marine Fuels: Mr Valery Golubev, Vice-Chairman, GAZPROM Management Board; || |Mr Igor Zaikin, Head of industrial safety, environmental and engineering work Oil Company "LUKOIL"; || |Pilot Finance Initiative: Projects in Public-Private Partnership - Energy efficiency, innovation and || |modernization in the field of small and medium-sized businesses: Mr Daniil Algulyan, Elected Chairman of the || |Steering Committee of PFI CBSS, Director, Head of the KfW Banking Group and KfW-IPEKS Bank GmbH in the Russian || |Federation; || |Mid-way report from the BSPC Working Group on Green Growth and Energy Efficiency: Ms Cecilie Tenfjord-Toftby, || |Chairman of the Working Group. || | || |Debate ||17.00 p.m. |2nd Meeting of BSPC Standing Committee as Drafting Committee || |(Mariinsky Palace, 1st floor, White Hall) || | ||19.30 p.m. |Reception hosted by Mr Vyacheslav Makarov, Speaker of Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Venue: Hotel || |Ambassador, 9th floor. || | || |Tuesday 28th August ||8.00 a.m. |3rd Meeting of BSPC Standing Committee as Drafting Committee || |(Mariinsky Palace, 1st floor, White Hall) ||9.00 a.m. |THIRD SESSION || | || |Chair: Mr Ryszard Gorecki, Senate of the Parliament of Poland || |Co-Chair: Mr Mikael Holmberg, Åland Islands || | || |A Safe and Healthy Baltic Sea || | || |Marine safety and environmental protection at the port of Ust-Luga Mr Vitaly Klyuev, Deputy Director of State || |Policy for Maritime and River Transport, Ministry of Transport, Russia || |Status Report from the BSPC Rapporteurs on Integrated Maritime Policy: Jochen Schulte and Roger Jansson || | || |Debate || | || |FOURTH SESSION, first part || | || |Health, Social Welfare and Economic Development || | || |Health and Social Well-Being || | || |The importance of Health and Social Well-Being for the Prosperity and Sustainable Economic Development of the || |Region: Ms Eeva-Liisa Haapaniemi, Consul, Social Affairs and Health, Consulate General of Finland, St || |Petersburg, representing the Chair country of NDPHS; || |Cooperation with the countries of the Baltic region in the fight against socially significant diseases: Ms || |Natalia Dorshakova, Professor, Petrozavodsk State University, Karelia; || |Ms Irina Sokolova, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Family, Women and Children, State Duma, Russia || |Heath Care Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: Mr Raimonds Vejonis, Vice President of the Baltic Assembly. ||10.30 a.m. |FOURTH SESSION, second part || | || |Chair: Ms Tatiana Zakharenkova, Parliament of the City of Saint-Petersburg; || |Co-Chair: Mr Torfinn Opheim, Parliament of Norway, Nordic Council || | || |Labour Market Issues || | || |Ms Mariya Grinnik, representative of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia in the North-West || |Federal District || |Youth Unemployment: Ms Karen Roiy, Senior Adviser, Confederation of Danish Employers, Brussels Office || |Mr Uwe Polkaehn, Chairman of the regional section Schleswig-Holstein of the Confederation of German trade || |unions, Chairman of BASTUN (Baltic Sea Region Trade Union Network); || |Infrastructure and Logistics: Mr Oddgeir Danielsen, Director, Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership|| |on Transport and Logistics || |Status report from the BSPC Rapporteur on Labor Market Issues: Franz Thönnes, Germany || | || |Trafficking in Human Beings || | || |Status report from the BSPC Rapporteurs on Trafficking in Human Beings: Johan Linander, Sweden || | || |Debate ||12.00 a.m. |CLOSING OF THE 21ST BSPC || | || |Chair: Ms Valentina Pivnenko, Chair of the BSPC, Head of the BSPC Delegation of the Federal Assembly of the || |Russian Federation || |Vice Chair: Ms Laine Randjärv, Vice Chair of the BSPC || |Administrative matters || |Adoption of The Conference Resolution || |Address by the incoming Chairman of the BSPC 2012-2013, Ms Laine Randjärv, Vice Speaker of the Riigikogu, the || |Estonian Parliament || |Presentation of Next Year’s Host Country - Estonia || | ||13.00 p.m. |Lunch at Mariinsky Palace || | || | ||15.00 p.m. |Boat excursion over rivers and canals of Saint Petersburg |