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Swedish Marine Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development

The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management aims to preserve, restore, and promote sustainable use of marine resources. Key tasks include marine environment management, fisheries management, and more. The Swedish Maritime Strategy focuses on coexistence, blue growth, renewable energy, and protection. The agency is involved in cross-border issues like energy distribution and shipping routes. Learn more at www.havochvatten.se.

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Swedish Marine Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development

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  1. MSP Sweden Bothnian Bay Baltic Sea Skagerrak/Kattegatt Tomas Andersson tomas.andersson@havochvatten.se

  2. Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management Mission: ”to preserve, restore and promotesustainableuseof lakes, watercourses, the ocean and fishresources” Our main tasks • management of the marine environment • fisheries management • marine spatial planning • management of fresh water • implementing the maritime strategy

  3. Spring 2016 Cross-checking Thematic work Three step dialogue for MSP Winter 2016/2017 15 Febr. -15 Aug 2018 Dialogue First draft Consultation Craft proposal 14 March – 14 June 2019 (c) Original flag by Acts of Union 1800SVG recreation by User:Zscout370 - Egetarbete per data at http://flagspot.net/flags/gb.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=347935 Refine proposal Consultation (review) Dec. 2019 Finaliseproposal Hand over proposals to the Govern-ment Adoption by March 2021 (latest) 2016-06-17

  4. Swedish points of departure Swedish Maritime Strategy (adopted by Gov. 2015) • the marine environment is not in a sustainable state • demand for blue growth and regional development • need for renewable energy • there are needs for different kinds of protection • normally coexistence between uses, but also conflicting interests • EU-legislation on marine spatial planning, deadline March 2021 • neighboring countries are planning

  5. Swedish MSP • Three spatial plans:Gulf of Bothnia, Baltic Sea and Skagerrak/Kattegat • One nautical mile (1852 m) from the baseline seawards incl. the Exclusive Economic Zone • Objective is to contribute to sustainable development • Plans are to be guiding for municipality comprehensive planning and in licensing • Plans are to be adopted by the Government • Government may adopt regulations prohibiting or limiting activities in destined geographical areas (Environmental Code 4 chapter 9§)

  6. Planning objectivesto support and guide the planning

  7. Involved in building Swedish MSP Neigh-bouringcountries Regions Counties Munici-palities National agencies 9+1 20 14 14 65 Re-search & science The Public Trade associations NGO, interest groups 21+ 15+ 20 10 million

  8. Km BorderEconomic zon Exampel: km Lituania: 7 Russia: 17 Germany 55 Norway 82 Estonia 96 Poland 162 Denmark/Bornh. 204 Latvia 235 Denmark 451 Finland: 882

  9. Proposals for review 14/3-14/6 2019

  10. DHP - clickable plan map with side panel

  11. Highlights from proposals • Coexistence is the normal case • Relativelyhigh offshore wind potential (33- 45 TWh annualproduction) • Identificationof a largenumberof areas w/ highnaturevalues (in addition to current MPA:s) • Enablingefficientshippng • Enablingdynamic and flexible fisheries • and more

  12. Cross borderissues, someexamples • Energy distribution • Planning ofMiddlebank and Kriegers Flak(Baltic Sea), • Shipping routes connecting the region • Commercial fishingacross EEZ and borders • Busy cross border areas: NorthernQuark, South Qaurk, Öresund and Kattegatt

  13. Findoutmore at www.havochvatten.se • Explorative andinteractiveplanmap • Plan proposals(English mid-April) • SEA, sustainabilityappraisals, socio-economicanalysis

  14. Thankyou and welcome! • www.panbalticscope.eu

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