On 20 May the BSSSC Working Group on Maritime Policy together with the maritime working groups of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC) held a joint session within the European Maritime Day Conference in Gdansk. The title “Common vision - linking efforts - strengthening visibility” and the contributions during the conference underlined their common will to jointly contribute to developing the Baltic Sea Region to Europe’s maritime best practice region by 2015 which is an objective of the BSSSC since the Conference on Maritime Policy the organization held in Kiel in September 2006.  The three bodies – representing the national, the regional and the parliamentary level – valued the meeting as a good kick-off for a fruitful and long-term cooperation. On invitation of the BSPC the three bodies will meet again on 20 June in Schwerin where they are going to speak about future cooperation and concrete projects. Stefan Musiolik, chairman of the BSSSC Working Group on Maritime Policy: “The project Clean Baltic Shipping is a priority of the BSSSC and also a declared matter of common interest. We have a good chance to get targeted political support from the different political levels for the implementation. That is a promising development.” A panel discussion under participation of the European Commission (COM) was part of the joint event. Stefan Musiolik used the opportunity and called upon the Commission to revive the “Clean Marine Award” the COM only once awarded to three projects in 2004: “Visibility is a key factor to promote our objectives in the maritime policy field. 2012 the European Maritime Day will be hosted by Gothenburg. This would be a good opportunity to award  the “Baltic Sea Clean Marine Award” for the first time”.