The idea of establishing the Euroregion Baltic was developed in the mid-1990s by local politicians and entrepreneurs from south-east Sweden and north-east Poland.

[citation needed] The representatives of regions participating in the conference decided to establish the Organizational Committee, whose task was to lay the foundations of the future Euroregion.

[citation needed] The working name of the Euroregion was "Jantar"[2] or "Amber", but it was later changed to "Baltic", as it underlined common cultural and historical heritage as well as geographical location of the participating regions.

According to the previous ERB Statutes, the Council consisted of up to eight representatives appointed by each Party of the Agreement and all the members of the Youth Board.

[16] Apart from the Council, the ERB member regions decided to dissolve all Working Groups and replace them with ad hoc Task Forces.

The idea of the Forum, which is not a decision-making body, is to create a meeting platform facilitating discussion of relevant stakeholders from member organisations.

[26] In 2010 ERB has undergone a strategic review of cooperation which resulted in a series of new documents outlining new objectives and focus areas.

[28] In order to facilitate the successful implementation of the lobbying activities, on 28 October 2010 ERB Council decided to create three ad hoc task forces.

It also aims at strengthening the vitality of ERB cooperation through involving high political representatives of the regions and other important stakeholders.

Currently, the organisation provides support to the ERB Water Forum and assists the Pomorskie region in its efforts to resubmit the BaltNet project to the South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme.

Within this objective ERB also supports the Youth Board in developing a flagship project proposal to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.

[32] With regards to the third objective, ERB will mainly support the development of other platforms of cooperation by serving as a match-making point and information broker in such areas as the triple-helix cooperation, labour mobility, maritime safety, environmental protection and energy saving, promotion of investments in transport infrastructure and facilitating border crossing with the Kaliningrad Region.

[33] These activities aim at deepening relations between the ERB member regions and strengthening cooperation through a collaborative approach to common problems.