A common identity

According to its objectives BSPC shall aim at strengthening the common identity of the Baltic Sea Region by close co-operation between national and regional parliaments. BSPC shall initiate and guide political activities in the region and further regional co-operation especially towards the Council of Baltic Sea States. The Parliamentary Conference shall be a forum for debate and information exchange between Parliaments and other organizations in the region both on international and interregional levels. 

Pushing the parliaments' involvement 

The underlying concept of the rules for the Standing Committee - the permanent political body of the conference - is to make the presence of parliamentary co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region felt beyond the annual conference. They also give the Standing Committee power to lend constancy to the parliamentary co-operation on a more permanent basis. 

The Standing Committee has a mandate to perform an executive function in monitoring the implementation of the final resolutions and cultivating contacts to other major international players in the region. The Standing Committee is also to set priorities on basis of annual working programs and take initiative to further Baltic Sea Co-operation. Ad-hoc working groups with external specialists makes it possible to bring in additional support to prepare the main subjects of the annual conference. In view of the greater continuity of the Committee's work the option to form ad-hoc groups for other tasks as well is open. 

Permanent members

All national and regional parliaments in the Baltic Sea region send delegates to the annual conference as does some international organizations.