Ratify the International Convention on the Management and Control of Ships’ Ballast Waters and Sediments, 2004, and ensure the implementation of the Convention.

Consider including in the State Environmental Monitoring Programme a part dedicated to monitoring non-indigenous and invasive species in the Baltic Sea in accordance with the requirements of HELCOM and Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species.

Assess the desirability of establishing legislative requirements in line with the IMO Guidelines for the Control and Management of Biohull Protectives to Reduce the Transfer of Invasive Water Species (according to Resolution MEPC.207 (62).

Encourage information campaigns to the public to reduce the negative melanostomic population abundance of the melanostous population, encouraging commercial fishing of the joke-frequency grundal and developing the export and consumption of fish products from the jokey grundal on the local market.