Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

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Northern Dimension Network Conference onThe
Northern Dimension of the EUThe Next Phase,
Manchester 12-13 December 2005The ND -
towards the Finnish EU Presidency and a new
framework documentMaimo HenrikssonDirector,
Unit for the Northern DimensionMinistry for
Foreign Affairs, Helsinki
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• Outline
• 1. Background
• 2. Partnerships
• 3. ND 2007 -

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1. Background History - Finnish initiative in
1997 / prime minister Lipponen - General
political guidelines endorsed during German
presidency -99 - First ND ministerial conference
and decision taken by the European Council in
-99 in Finland commission received task to work
out action plan - First Action Plan 2000-2003
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• - Second Action Plan 2004-2006
• - economy, business and infrastructure
• - human resources, education, culture,
  scientific research and health
• - environment, nuclear safety, natural resources
• - cross-border co-operation, regional
  development
• - justice and home affairs
• - Arctic regions
• - Kaliningrad

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• - Members all EU-member states, Commission
• - Partners Russia, Norway, Iceland
• - Observers USA, Canada
• - Other ND actors
• - Financial institutions
• - Regional Councils
• - EP
• - Committee of the Regions
• - ECOSOC

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• - What is the ND?
• Macro-level
• 1. Political concept in order to get
  EU-attention to Northern Europe, especially
  North-West Russia, and to develop fields of
  mutual interest
• Micro-level
• 2. Partnerships and all project activities by
  various actors (single countries, countries
  together, commission, NGOs etc.) in the ND-area

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2. Partnerships

• 1. ND Environmental Partnership (NDEP)
• - established in 2001
• - support fund established in 2002 (EBRD)
• - non-nuclear and nuclear window
• - sector focus water, waste water, solid waste,
  energy efficiency and nuclear waste
• - contributions 225 mill. euro
• 150 mill. euro for nuclear window
• 75 mill. euro for non-nuclear window
• - contributions loans 2 bill. euro
• - contributions commission, Denmark, Norway,
  Russia, Sweden, France, UK, Netherlands, Germany,
  Canada, Belgium, Finland

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First NDEP Supported Projects Project
Lead IA Project cost IFI loans NDEP
Investment TA/TC grant
grant grant St Petersburg Southwest
Wastewater NIB 189 104.5 5.8
5.8 - Treatment Plant St
Petersburg Flood Protection Barrier EBRD 492
278 1 - 1 St
Petersburg Northern WWTP Incinerator EBRD 90.4
38.2 6.35 6
0.35 Leningrad Oblast Environment Investment
NIB 23.3 5.25 4
4 - Programme Komi Municipal
Services Improvement EBRD 31.8 15
5.9 5 0.9 Project Kaliningrad
District Heating Rehabilitation EBRD 20.8 12
7.3 6.5 0.8 Archangelsk
Municipal Services EBRD 25.3 10 8.2
7.3 0.9 Improvement Project
Murmansk District Heating Project NIB 29.6 16.6
5.0 5.0 - Kaliningrad
Water and Environmental EBRD 110 75.8 10
10 - Services Project
Kaliningrad Project Implementation
Unit EBRD 3.7 - 3.0 -
3.0 Total, m 1 020 567 56.55
49.6 6.95
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Potential NDEP Projects (Endorsed by Steering
Group) - Novgorod Cross Municipal Rehabilitation
(NIB), 20m - Kaliningrad Solid Waste Management
Project (NIB), 49m - St. Petersburg Neva Direct
Discharge Closure Project (NIB), 300m - St.
Petersburg District Heat Metering Programme
(EBRD) - Ladoga Environmental Programme (NIB),
500m - Vologda Municipal Water Services Project
(EBRD), 16m
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Urgent NDEP Nuclear Clean-up Projects - Gremikha
Bay - creation of safe storage conditions for
spent nuclear fuel from Alpha class
nuclear submarines, 1m - design for removal of
spent nuclear fuel and solid radioactive
waste from the open storage pad design for safe
storage of spent nuclear fuel from pressurised
water reactors in existing storage facilities,
3m - improvement of the physical protection
system, 2m - Creation of radiation monitoring
systems, regional crisis center and emergency
response systems in Murmansk region, 5.1m
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Leverage of 2 billion in the environmental
sector of the Northern Dimension Area
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- Other Potential NDEP Projects - Komi Uhta
Municipal Services Improvement - Nenets District
Heating Modernisation Programme - Municipal
Environment Investment Programme in Leningrad
Oblast, Phase II - Murmansk District Heating
Project, Phase II - Vyborg Municipal Project
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2. ND Partnership in Public Health and Social
wellbeing (NDPHS)

• - established in 2003
• - secretariat established in 2004
• - sector focus HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and
  diseases related to a low standard of living
• - first task collect information, identification
  of problem spots
• - parties commission, Germany, France, Sweden,
  Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Poland, Russia, Norway, Canada WHO, BEAC, CBSS,
  ILO, IOM, NCM,
• UN HIV/Aids-programme

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3. ND 2007 -

• Tasks today
• 1. - strengthen the current ND policy
  (macro-level)
• - strengthen the partnerships (micro-level)
• 2. Ensure a further developed ND beyond 2006
• - ND ministerial conference 21.11.2005
  Guidelines approved

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Guidelines (approved on 21 November 2005)

• - geographical coverage
• - parties EU MS, Russia, Norway, Iceland,
  European Commission
• - regional councils
• - partnerships
• - regional expression of EU-Russia common spaces
• - sectors
• - economic co-operation
• - freedom, security, justice
• - external security
• - research, education, culture
• - environment, nuclear safety, natural resources
• - social welfare, health care

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- structures - financing - joint expert level
steering group political declaration
framework document (1.1.2007 -)
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Process

• Austrian presidency
• - spring 2006 drafting
• Finnish presidency
• - September 22, 2006 Senior Officials Meeting
  (Imatra)
• - late autumn final approval on the political
  level
• (back-to-back with EU-Russia summit ?)
• German presidency
• - 1.1.2007 Renewed common ND Policy entering
  into force

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Food for thought Contents of future ND policy

• - More substantial contents concerning economic
  co-operation - a possible new partnership in the
  field of transport and logistics
• - promotion of investments
• - A new key area in the field of research and
  education
• - exchange of students and researchers to a new
  level - promotion of innovations
• - Increased input to the partnership for health
  and social well-being
• - Increased input to the environmental partnership

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WHY?

• - Importance of co-operation with Russia
  (especially North-West Russia)
• - Existing tool for implemention of common spaces
  in the regional context (pilot)
• - Importance of regional co-operation (ND-area,
  Mediterranean area, Black Sea area etc.)