Legal Basis: Rules of Procedure Aims:
- To strengthen the common identity of the Baltic Sea Region by
close cooperation between national and regional parliaments
- to initiate and guide political activities in the region
- to act as a forum for debate and the exchange of information
and experience between parliaments and other international and
interregional organizations
Members: National and regional parliaments of the Baltic Sea
Region, regional organizations and parliamentary assemblies as
observers Bundestag membership since: 2000 Total number of seats:
Variable (4-5 delegates per member parliament, 2-3 delegates per
observer)
German delegation Representatives of the
Land Parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania, the Parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the
Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and the
German Bundestag Bundestag delegation: 4 - 5 (3 : 2) Head of
delegation:
Franz Thönnes (SPD)
Institutions:
- Annual Parliamentary Conference
- Standing Committee
Sessions: Meets once a year Place of meeting: Rotates between the
various member countries Working languages: English (+ Russian,
Scandinavian, German during the conference)
