Many interesting presentations of the ongoing environmental and LA 21 activities in the member cities were given during the two days. These included, e.g., presentations about sustainable pilot households, the use of internet as a participatory method in LA 21 work, SAIL Project, and many other co-operation projects and short city reports.

The Commission meeting also endorsed the Report of the Activities of the Commission in 1998 and discussed and adopted the Action Plan of the Commission for 1999. The Commission decided that Carl Nielsen from Aarhus will continue as the Chairman and Mikko Jokinen from Turku as the Vice Chairman, and that the commission secretariat will remain in the City of Turku.

The Commission meeting also discussed the proposal of Best Environmental Practise in Baltic Cities Award. The intention is that the ceremonies of this UBC award could take place at the UBC General Conference in Stockholm in September.

On the second day (UBC LA 21 Working Group), the UBC Local Agenda 21 Action Plan was discussed and developed in four workshops: Strategies for Networking, New Project Ideas, Information Work, and Contents and concepts of LA 21 Work.

The meeting agreed that the results of the workshops should form the general guidelines for further developing the UBC LA 21 Action Plan draft. It was also agreed that one more meeting would be required before the Action Plan should be presented to the UBC Board.