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Juha-Markku Leppänen Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute

Dilemma of Boundaries in the Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Finnish Experiences from the Public Consultations. Juha-Markku Leppänen Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute. Boundaries uniting and separating. Implementation of the MSFD in Finland.

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Juha-Markku Leppänen Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute

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  1. Dilemma of Boundaries in the Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework DirectiveFinnish Experiences from the Public Consultations Juha-Markku Leppänen Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute

  2. Boundaries uniting and separating

  3. Implementation of the MSFD in Finland • Main responsibility: the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Traffic and Communication; • To be adopted by the Council of the State; • Implementation assisted by the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment located at coastal areas and governmental research institutes; • Basically same administrational structures as created for the WFD to be used; • Specific Coordination and Expert Groups to carry out the practical work • Åland Island, as the autonomous region, makes its own marine strategy, which will be a part of the Finnish one

  4. Public Consultation • In “Main Finland” between 16 April and 15 May • In Finnish and Swedish • Åland Island organized its own regional consultation • Divided into the countrywide consultation and the regional ones • The Ministry of Environment requested opinions of other ministries, governmental institutions and countrywide stakeholder • The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment took care of the consultation in their districts • directed mainly to municipalities and local stakeholders • The consultation document was publicly available in the Internet for anyone to comment

  5. Dilemma of boundaries • The importance of a marine strategy was not questioned! • Boundaries between the Directives • Many comments were related to the significant water management issues of the WFD • The added value of the MSFD in the coastal area was questioned • Administrative boundaries • Cooperation within national administrational sectors still ambiguous • Regional state administrative bodies are quite independent • Boundaries between the sectors • The proposed marine strategy either too weak or too ambitious • Geographic boundaries • Need for transboundary coordination not understood • Coastal-open sea boundary confusing • One marine strategy vs. river basins difficult • Local problems vs. GES • Spatial scope

  6. Summary • The responses received from ministries, central organisations and stakeholders mainly well structured. • The general public touched mainly very local and even personal topics and responses were “unstructured”. Recommendations • Public consultations for the MSFD and the WFD should be carried out at the same time. • Different stakeholders should be better take into account when preparing the consultation material e.g. for general public a structured electronic questionnaire should be developed. • “Advertisement” needed

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