Susanne GustafssonPanBalticScope FIAXSE case, Umeå

Baltic SCOPE collaborationTowards coherence and cross-border solutions in Baltic Maritime Spatial PlansMarch 2015 – March 2017

• Cross-border cooperation

• MSP authorities & relevant

regional sea organizations

• Support actual MSP

implementation

• Added value

Overall aim

The Partnership

2015-2016

Partners in more detail

MSP authorities

1. SE: Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM)

2. DE: Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)

3. DK: Danish Nature Agency (DAN)

4. PL: Maritime Office in Szczecin (MOS)

5. LV: Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development (MoEPRD)

6. EE: Ministry of the Finance (Min. EE)

Regional organisations

7. VASAB

8. HELCOM

9. Nordregio

10. SYKE, Finnish Environment Institute

Associated partners

FI: Ministry of the Environment

LT: Ministry of Environment

DE: Ministry for Energy, Infrastructure and

Regional Development of

Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

Case studies

Southwest

Baltic

Central

Baltic

Monitoring & evaluation

transboundary framework

Coordination & management

Communication &

dissemination

Lessons learnt

“Plans are nothing –

planning is everything”Dwight D. Eisenhower

General & President of USA 1953-1961

Together…

Topics are connected to the

geography – and how does it

have an effect on planning

• Shipping• Environment• Fishery • Energy

Enormus amount of

shipping data (2006-2015) processed &

for the first time available online

Marine Green Infrastructure

Topic: Fishing

Image of

spawning and

nursery areas

for species of

interest to

commercial

fisheries

Middlebank: Important fishing

ground (SWE, PL and CB case)

Current Status: Energy

OWF in use

Approved OWF/

advanced stage of

licensing process

Shipping is vital and intense

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Baltic proper

= 1 ship per 10 min

Potential conflicts with

energy sector

• Single obstacles can be avoided

• Multiple obstacles are more

difficult to avoid

• Collision risk and radar

disturbance

• Cables may hinder emergency

anchoring

• Safety zones needed between

routes and energy installations

Top 3 BalticScope results

• How complex transboundary MSP can be, more

difficult than expected. No one size fits all

solution.

• Improved and shared understanding of pre-

conditions for planning in respectively country

• Recommendations

We learnt a lot!!!

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