The Sixth Project Management Group Meeting was held in Helsinki, Finland 28 June -1 July 2011. Baltic Compass local Finnish partner Finnish Environmental (SYKE) served as the local host for the visit. The meeting was a success and lead to many interesting discussions and decisions were made concerning policy dialogues, investments and the scenario work. Further decisions were made about the overall project work plan and the communication.

The Meeting adopted the set of policy dialogues as an organizing principle for cross Workpackage work to replace the earlier integrated tasks. The purpose of the so called governance dialogues from the stakeholders standpoint is on one hand to facilitate the drafting of country-level implementation plans and to help safeguard that measures serving nutrient reduction objectives are not counteracting other objectives, such as biodiversity, climate change or flood protection. 

An other important subject was the purposes of the scenarios. They will be to initiate and shape the transnational dialogue on land use planning which will play a very important roll in Baltic Compass.  The scenarios are optimized on the river basin scale, also linking land and farm type with optimal measures. It was acknowledged that more detailed data on land use and agricultural activity is needed. 

The meeting further approved the propose list of pre-qualified investments and approved the principle that investments in Baltic COMPASS co-financed by Agro Business Park take place in Denmark. The meeting stressed that all investments to which Baltic COMPASS contributes financially (feasibility studies, investments financed by ABP, LLUR and RUESPCNAS, have to be open for public, transnational in value and communicated and disseminated across the Baltic Sea region. 

Anna Tjärvar representing SIDA held a presentation about the work in the field of biosecurity and initial sampling and water analysis results of bacterial and pharmaceutical contamination. It was acknowledged that the connection between biosecurity risk and agricultural practices can be made only on a broader spatial scale based on aggregated agricultural activity and geo-hydrological conditions.