| Name |
Type |
Timeframe |
Countries Involved |
Purposes |
Current Position |
Point of Contact |
| Environmental Protection, construction and development of training areas |
EP |
1998 - |
EST, FIN |
Expert talks on different topics |
Regural meeting on annual bases. Matters of discussion depend on which are the main concers on specific moment |
EST, FIN |
| Environmental Officers Course |
E |
2004-2006 |
EST, LAT, LIT |
Development of training curriculum for environmental officers |
Update of studymaterials after first course conducted in 2003 |
EST, LAT, LIT, SWE |
| Baltic Sea Region Defence Environmental Strategy |
SE (strategic document) |
2002 - |
DEN, EST, FIN, GEO, GER, LAT, LIT, POL, ROM, RUS, SWE, UK, US |
Establishing a framework for coordinated defence environmental co-operation in Baltic Sea Region |
The Informal Secretariat is working in order to endorse the strategy |
EST, LAT, SWE, US |
| Environmental Management System |
EMS |
2002 - 2005 |
CAN, LIT, SWE |
Implementation of EMS in the Armed Forces of Lithuania |
Procedures for Policy and Planning completed, procedures for implementation and operations established (operational control long term improvement) first EMS Cycle 2004 - 2005 |
CAN, LIT, SWE |
| Waste Management |
WM |
2003 - |
DEN, LAT |
Co-operation on the development of waste management strategy for the Latvian Armed Forces |
Designing of technical project Eco-station in Adazi Base |
DEN, LAT |
| MILSTOY |
N |
2002 - |
DEN, NOR |
Co-operation on the development of a military training noise computer calculation and visualisation programme |
continuing co-operation - to be developed into including noise from aircrafts too |
DEN, NOR |
| Nordic working group, Defence Command level |
E |
2002 - |
DEN, FIN, NOR, SWE |
Study of the environmental iimpacts of sea-to-land and return military exercises |
continuing |
DEN, FIN, NOR, SWE |
| Nordic Defence Construction Service Environmental Co-operation |
SE (variety of issues) |
ongoing |
DEN, FIN, NOR, SWE |
To hold workshops on whatever subjects are concern to all participating parties - in 2003 shooting ranges, water and ground pollution and waste |
continuing |
DEN, FIN, NOR, SWE |
| NATO/CCMS pilot study on environmental management in military sector |
EMS |
pilot study: 1996 - 1999, workshops: 2001, 2002 and expected to continue |
Among others DEN, EST, FIN, GER, LAT, LIT, NOR, POL, SWE |
To exchange information on the implementation of environmental management systems in the military sector |
expected to continue |
NATO CCMS |
| Expert talks on EMS |
EMS |
ongoing (last meeting was in august 2004) |
EST, GER, LAT, LIT |
Enivonmental Protection management on training areas - utilisation and development plan |
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GER |
| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
1. Spent nuclear fuel management |
one project completed (the development of a prototype cask for storage and transport of spent nuclear fuel from submarines), 2 projects ongoing (construction of a transshipment pad at ATOMFLOT in MURMANsk and development of drying technology for spent nuclear fuel casks |
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| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
2. Liquid waste - development of a specialized mobile liquid waste processing facility to support the dismantlement of nuclear submarines |
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| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
3. Solid waste volume reduction - development a mobile pretreatment facility to process solid readioactive waste. |
Completed 2002 |
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| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
4. Solid waste storage technologies - addresses the Russian shortage of interim storage for naval solid radioactive waste and is implemented at Polyarny (Murmansk Region) |
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| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
5. Radiation monitoring and personnel safety - enhances monitoring, radiation dosimetry and sefety procedures and techniques in the Russian military particulary as they pertain to nuclear submarine dismantlement |
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| AMEC |
General |
1996 - |
NOR, RUS, UK, US |
6. Non-radioactive projects - issues related to oily water and soil, the development of storage battery disposal facility and military base environmental management |
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| Implementation of EMS (ISO 14 001) in military base |
EMS |
2005 - |
EST, SWE, GEO |
To introduce an environmental management system at the Kuperjanovi Single Guard Battalion (Estonia) and to complete at the MOD environmental policy act and Action Plan. Introduce an environmental management system in Vasiani Base (Georgia) |
|
GEO, EST, SWE |
| Environmental Handbook |
E |
2004 - 2006 |
UKR, SWE |
Developing and publishing the Environmental Handbook for the Ukranian Armed Forces |
|
UKR, SWE |
| Environmental Management System |
EMS |
2005 - |
LAT, CAN, NDL |
Implementation of EMS in Defence Forces of Latvia |
EMS Handbook, identification of EMS aspects, review of EMS perfomance |
LAT, CAN, NDL |
| International Maritime Environmental Protection Seminar |
E |
2004 - |
LAT, LIT, EST, DEN, NOR, POL, BEL, UK, NDL, US, GEO, CRO, UKR, BUL |
Environmental protection training for Naval personel |
continuing |
LAT, CAN, NDL |
| Management of the EU NATURA 2000 sites |
NP |
2005 - |
LAT, BEL |
Sharing of experiences; management of the EU NATURA 2000 site in Adazi Training Area |
continuing |
LAT, CAN, NDL |
The following list is a classification for the type of project:
E - Education and Training (environmental handbooks, study materials, courses) MP - Management Plans EMS - Environmental Management System NP - Nature Protection CU - Clean Up PP - Pollution Prevention N - Noise WM - Waste Management SE - Something else/Other (please specify)
The following list is a classification for countries:
BEL - Belgium
CAN - Canada
CZE - Czech Republic
DEN - Denmark
EST - Estonia
EU - European Union
FIN - Finland
GEO - Georgia
GER - Germany
LAT - Latvia
LIT - Lithuania
MAC - Macedonia
NOR - Norway
POL - Poland
ROM - Romania
RUS - Russia
SWE - Sweden
UK - United Kingdom
US - United States
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