Maritime Spatial Planning in Sweden

Central Baltic Stakeholder Conference

31 May – 1 June 2016

MSP in Sweden

• Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

has been commissioned to carry out Sweden's

maritime spatial planning

• Ministry of the Environment

• Three plans – the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Sea, the

Western Sea

• Plans will be adopted by the government

• Guiding Maritime Spatial Plans – but possibility to

adopt regulations prohibiting or limiting activities

Swedish MSP

borders on:

9 neighbouring

countries (MSP)

And overlaps with:

65 municipalities

(comprehensive

plans)

14 regions and

counties (regional

plans and strategies)

Cooperation

Overlapping plans

Process

• We are up-and-running!

• Planning and dialogue in several steps

• Plan proposals (and regulations) to be sent for

governmental decision in 2019

• Strategic environmental assessment &

socioeconomic analysis integrated into the planning

process