Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection Polish Environmental Protection Strategy for the Baltic Sea – selected actions Andrzej Jagusiewicz Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection of Poland, 25.08.2014, Olsztyn

Main challenges Tailor-made investments Small/ medium funding Citizients behaviour PPP vs PPP -> profit making in Public Private Partnership Cooperation across the entire Baltic Basin following: Openness, Transparency and Mutual Trust and Using the road map of HELCOM Ministerial and requirements of MSFD

Full synergy and harmonization MSFD HELCOM EUS BSR Initial assessment – all environmental components Priority Area 1 Priority Area 3 HELCOM LAND HELCOM MUNI/SUBMERGED

DCWs -> safer exploration and exploitation of the seabed In 2010 as a Polish and German initiative the HELCOM MUNI group was established to prepare a report on chemical munitions dumped in the Baltic Sea; In 2013 HELCOM MUNI report was presented; In 2014 the new HELCOM SUBMERGED group on environmental risks of hazardous submerged objects will starts; Poland is leader of the UMBRELLA project (Underwater Munitions Baltic REmediation cLuster League) under EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region; Investigation on possibility to develop pilot project focus on removing DCW on the Polish Baltic coast , 2014, Poland

Closed phosphogypsum waste site in Wiślinka Joint Polish-Finnish samplings in the vicinity of the Wiślinka phosphogypsum dumpsite in 2013 – satisfactory for both sides; The environmental review confirm that the threat to the waters of Gdansk Bay from phosphates from the phosphogypsum stack in Wiślinka is not significant; Last HELCOM LAND meeting was organized in Gdańsk to show the new plans to divert drainage waters from around the phosphogypsum waste stack back to the production cycle at Fosfory Plant in Gdansk that would reduce potential threat of nutrients leakage into the Baltic

Thank you for your attention a.jagusiewicz@gios.gov.pl