© Natural Resources Institute Finland Luonnonvarakeskus (In Finnish) Natural Resources Institute Finland Natural Resources Institute Finland is a research and expert organization. The institute promotes bioeconomy and sustainable use of natural resources. Lauri Urho, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Will also have responsibilities in implementing of the Eu regulations on IAS: Surveillance, management, reporting etc.

© Natural Resources Institute Finland Lauri Urho, Senior Scientist, Ph.D. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Research on fish reproduction and ecology the affect of envivironmental changes on fish stocks and catches including climate change, eutrophication, acidification, and oil spills. invasive alien species Working groups on nature conservation and/or alien species: National evaluation of threatened fish species and in the HELCOM group red listing the fishes in the Baltic Sea National evaluation group on freshwater nature types Conservation of the freshwater nature types Conservation measures to reach the good status of the Baltic Sea ICES/IOC/IMO Working Group on Ballast and Other Ship Vectors (WGBOSV) ICES Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) Scientific Forum on Invasive Alien Species National working groups on invasive alien species: Expertise advice for the group drawing the National Strategy on Invasive Aliens Expert group to implement the National Strategy on Invasive Aliens Expert group on planning the surveillance of Invasive Alien Species Expert group on the Implementation of the EU regulation on IAS

© Natural Resources Institute Finland Awareness Co-operation between different institutes and organisations, Species information portals. List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern. 2.Pathways A long EU borderline; land, freshwater and brackish water area. Human influence is the main concern. Co-operation with Russian colleagues and customs. 3.Management Co-operation between different institutes and organisations are needed. Development of new management methods are needed. Containment is more reasonable than costly eraradication attempts. 4.Surveillance Alien species database for data collected by researchers as well as citizens are needed. Targeted surveys and early detections are often more than a challance. 5.Identification Species Information Portal on alien species. Customs officers need identification assistence. 6.Guidelines and training material Species Information Portal on alien species

© Natural Resources Institute Finland How to get citizen approval/acceptance for all the species in the list of EU concern ? How to execute the eradication and mangement measures, in cases when we already know that the species eradication is impossile? Nice in theory – Challange to implement Big differences between member states Northern and southern Europe are climatically far from each other. One species may be a threat in the northern and another in the southern Europe. Most of the risk assessments are done from a southern point of view, not considering the whole EU area. Listing wrong species may jeobardise the power of the whole IAS regulation

© Natural Resources Institute Finland Natural Resources Institute Finland Lauri Urho, Senior Scientist, Ph.D.