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Enter your name here. Instructions from the government. The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management is the administrative authority for issues dealing with the preservation , restoration and sustainable use of lakes, streams and seas .

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  2. Instructions from the government The Swedish Agency for Marine and WaterManagement is the administrative authority for issuesdealingwith the preservation, restoration and sustainableuseof lakes, streams and seas. The Agency shall, withinitsareas of ​​responsibility, be proactive, supportiveand unifying in its implementation of environmental policiesand shallpromotethe sustainablemanagement offishingresources.

  3. Sweden'senvironmentalobjectives • ZeroEutrophication • FlourishingLakes and Streams • A Balanced Marine Environment, FlourishingCoastal Areas and Archipelagos

  4. Howto get there • Water management • Marine environment management • Fisheries management • Marine spatial planning

  5. SwAM • Approximately230 employees • Headquarterslocated in Gothenburg • Fisheriesinspection in Simrishamn, Västra Frölunda, Kungshamn, and Karlskrona • The vesselMimer

  6. SwAM is responsible for carryingoutSweden'scommitments • Three ofSweden's16 environmental objectives • EU’s Marine StrategyFrameworkDirective • EU’sWaterFrameworkDirective • EU’s and Sweden’s Common Fisheries Policy • The regional conventionsOSPAR and HELCOM

  7. ScientificAffairsDepartment • Reports on the stateof the environment • Coordinates the follow-upofSweden’s environmental objectives • Coordinatesmonitoring for marine and freshwaterenvironments • Prepares and coordinates research needs • Performs environmental economicanalyses • Disseminates information (agency’slibrary) • Coordinates international work

  8. Department for Marine and Water Management • CoordinatesSweden'seffortsfor: • EU’s Marine StrategyFrameworkDirective • EU’sWaterFrameworkDirective • EU’s Habitats Directive • OSPAR and HELCOM • Marine spatial planning • Conservation • Restoration, aquaticbiodiversity • Environmental implementation and enforcement

  9. Department for Fisheries Management • Technicalregulations • Permits and licenses • FisheriesMonitoring Center: vesselmonitoring and e-logbook support • Monitoringoffishingquotas, analyses and cross-checking • Landing-, transport-, och tradecontrol • International controlcooperation

  10. Department for Operational Management • Legal proceedings • IT support, operation and development • Economicprocedures – finance, budgeting, appropriations management, accounting • Business operations – planning, follow-up, reporting

  11. EU WaterFrameworkDirective • Went into force in 2000 and wasadoptedinto Swedish law in 2004 • To protect and improve the environment in lakes, streams, rivers and coastalwaters • Groundwater, as well as wetlandsrelianton groundwater, arealsocoveredby the Directive WaterFrameworkDirective

  12. EU Marine StrategyFrameworkDirective • Common strategy for memberstates, July 2008 • A goalthat the status ofmarine ecosystemswillhave a rating of”good” by 2020 • Thisappliesto all EU marine watersincludingeconomiczones • SwAM is responsible for Sweden'scommitments

  13. EU Common Fisheries Policy • Common rulesthroughout all EU countries • Decidedupontogether by the memberstates • Equivalentfisheryinspections • Necessarytomanageour stocks offish • To be reformed by 2013

  14. Regional environmentalconventions • OSPAR – aimstoprotect the marine environmentin the North-East Atlantic • 15 countries and the EU Commission • HELCOM – aimstoprotect the marine environmentof the Baltic Sea region • 9 countries and the EU commission

  15. Ministerial decision from 2007 within the framework for HELCOM The Baltic Sea, the OresundChannel, and the Kattegatt Proper Objective– goodecological status by 2021 National implementation plans through 2010 To be evaluated at a ministerial meeting in 2013 HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

  16. Spatial planning of the territorial seaand the Swedish economiczone Planning in Depth– Marine Spatial Planning, a final reportsubmittedto the government in December 2010 SwAMcoordinateswhile thecoastalcountyadministrative boards assist Collaborationbetweenmunicipalities and sectorauthorities The bill is being prepared in the Swedish governmentoffices

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