Strategic Documents
Download the guiding documents of the CBSS and the Summit and Council meeting communiques.
Throughout the year the CBSS holds a number of international and regional meetings. These culminate in two alternating high-level meetings, either a CBSS Ministerial or a Baltic Sea States Summit. The Summit is held by the Head of Government of the presiding Member State and the Ministerial is held by the Foreign Minister of the respective CBSS Member State. Both of these meetings are also attended by a representative from the European Union. Here we provide you with a historical overview of our yearly meetings and the communiques and declarations that eminate from them. Read more about the structure of our organisation here.
Strategic Documents
Guiding Documents
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- CBSS Gender Policy
- CBSS Child Safeguarding Policy
- Host Country Agreement
- Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat Terms of Reference
- Council of the Baltic Sea States Terms of Reference
- Vilnius II Declaration
- CBSS Action Plan
- CBSS Baltic 2030 Action Plan
- CBSS Children At Risk Regional Strategy 2020-2025
- CBSS Children At Risk Mandate 2020-2025
- CBSS Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings Terms of Reference 2020-2025
- CBSS Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings Strategy 2020-2025
- Joint Statement of commitment to work against human trafficking for labour exploitation in the Baltic Sea Region
- Oslo Declaration on Regional Cooperation in the Civil Protection Network
- Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection Area
- Decision on CBSS long-term priorities
- Principles and Guidelines for 3rd-party Participation in CBSS Activities and Meetings
- Rights and Obligations of the Observers of CBSS
Ministerial Communiques
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- 2024 Porvoo Declaration, the declaration of the 21st CBSS Ministerial Session in Porvoo, Finland
- 2023 Wismar Declaration, the declaration of the 20th CBSS Ministerial Session in Wismar, Germany
- 2023 Berlin Declaration on Baltic Offshore Wind by CBSS Foreign Ministers
- 2022 Kristiansand Declaration, the declaration of the 19th CBSS Ministerial Session in Kristiansand, Norway
- 2022 Declaration by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the participation by the Russian Federation and Belarus in the work of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
- 2021 CBSS Action Plan
- 2021 Vilnius II Declaration
- 2020 Bornholm Declaration
- 2019 Roadmap of the CBSS reform
- 2019 Jurmala Declaration
- 2018 Stockholm Declaration
- 2017 Reykjavik Declaration on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
- 2016 Warsaw Declaration Regional Responses to Global Challenges
- 2016 Annex to the Warsaw Declaration Regional Responses to Global Challenges
- 2016 CBSS Declaration Baltic 2030 Warsaw
- 2015 9th Conference of the Ministers of Culture of the Baltic Sea States Final Conclusions
- 2015 Note of the CBSS Committee of Senior Officials on the Implementation of the CBSS Long-Term Priorities
- 2015 Strategic Actions Taken to Implement the CBSS Long-Term Priorities
- 2014 Declaration on the Implementation of the Vilnius Declaration
- 2014 Decision by the Council of the Baltic Sea States on a review of the CBSS long-term priorities
- 2013 18th CBSS Ministerial Session Declaration
- 2012 5th CBSS Conference of Ministers of Transport Declaration
- 2012 CBSS 17th Ministerial Session Declaration on Energy Security in the Baltic Sea Region
- 2011 CBSS 16th Ministerial Session Declaration Oslo
- 2009 CBSS 15th Ministerial Session Declaration Elsinore
- 2007 CBSS 14th Ministerial Session Declaration
- 2007 CBSS 14th Ministerial Session Joint Communique
- 2005 CBSS 13th Ministerial Session Communique
- 2003 CBSS 12th Ministerial Session Communique
- 2002 CBSS 11th Ministerial Session Declaration
- 2001 CBSS 10th Ministerial Session Communique
- 2000 CBSS 9th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1999 CBSS 8th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1998 CBSS 7th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1997 CBSS 6th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1996 CBSS 5th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1995 CBSS 4th Ministerial Session Communique
- 1994 CBSS 3rd Ministerial Session Communique
- 1993 CBSS 2nd Ministerial Session Communique
- 1992 CBSS 1st Ministerial Session Communique
Summit Communiques
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- 2013 BSF High-Level Conference Statement
- 2012 9th Baltic Sea States Summit Stralsund Germany Presidential Communique
- 2012 9th Baltic Sea States Summit Stralsund Germany Presidential Communique DEU
- 2010 CBSS 8th Baltic Sea States Summit in Vilnius A Vision for the Baltic Sea Region by 2020
- 2008 7th Baltic Sea States Summit Chairmans Conclusions
- 2008 Riga Declaration on the Reform of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
- 2006 6th Baltic Sea States Summit Chairmans Conclusions
- 2004 5th Baltic Sea States Summit Chairmans Conclusions
- 2002 4th Baltic Sea States Summit Chairmans Conclusions
- 2000 3rd Baltic Sea States Summit Chairmans Conclusions
- 1998 2nd BSS Summit Presidency Declaration
- 1996 1st Baltic Sea States Summit Presidency Declaration