Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-Operation (Bsssc)

the baltic sea states subregional co-operation (bsssc) is a political network for decentralised authorities (subregions) in the baltic sea region. the organisation was founded in stavanger, norway, in 1993. its participants are regional authorities (level directly below the national level authorities) of the 10 baltic sea littoral states: germany, denmark, finland, sweden, norway, poland, latvia, lithuania, estonia and russia. bsssc’s values are: to be a credible organisation representing the views of sub regions in the bsr. to be a knowledge based organisation. to be a visible and recognisable organisation. to be an organisation, which is flexible and receptive to changes. bsssc put weight on the close cooperation with other policy formulating baltic sea organisations. bsssc’s work shall focus on: acting as a pan-baltic organisation open to all regions around the entire baltic sea region (bsr), bringing added value to regional co-operation on every side of the baltic sea. using its im