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Baltic Sea Region 
JROPEAN 
EGIOMAL 
EVELOPMENT 
IHD 
AAN a‘ 
Risk of species introduction (biosecurity risk) 
Risk of biocide input 
Risk of particle input 
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The risk assessment concept bases on experiences from the project but also on experiments 
performed in other research studies from all over the world. Administrations and Ports who are the 
main bodies responsible for IWC as well as transport agencies, EPAs, scientific institutes and 
diving companies from all interested Baltic Sea countries have been involved in the development 
5y inviting them to provide input and discuss the applicability in their respective locations at several 
national and international meetings (termed as “Stakeholdermeetings” in the following). The 
resulting options for consideration of IWC permissions of ships in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in 
this paper are visualized in a flow chart (Appendix 1) aiming to create the decision process more 
transparent for both, the applicants and the responsible authorities. 
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