Instead it was considered that the fishery resources in the Baltic Sea should better be managed within the framework of a bilateral fisheries agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation, which for the time-being should be limited to the Baltic Sea.
Eiropas Komisija ierosina, ka kvalitātes pārbaudes jāveic virszemes ūdeņiem, taču ne dzīvajiem organismiem (biotām) un nogulsnējumiem.