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What does it say the Baltic Sea Action Plan about Maritime Spatial Planning? What is the origin of the HELCOM-VASAB MSP Group? All these questions and more resolved in one short and informative presentation. I gave it on 1 November in Riga (Latvia) under the PartiSEApate project
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PartiSEApate workshop: MSP as a management tool for Nature Protection
Manuel FriasRiga, 1st November 2013
Baltic Sea Action Plan... ...and
Maritime Spatial Planning
Pam Culver
Do they make a
good match?
BSAP: The ”constitution” of the Baltic Sea
John Linwood
”...achieve a Baltic Sea in good environmental status by 2021”
20131992 2003
HELCOM convention signed
Baltic Sea Action Planbrief history
1974 2007
HELCOM convention ratified by all countries
Joint HELCOM-OSPAR ministerial meetingForms the core of BSAP
BSAP adopted!
Maritime Spatial
Planning is
mentioned in the
biodiversity section
The four main sections of the BSAP
”...develop by 2010 marine spatial planning principles based on the Ecosystem Approach...”
”To this en WE ADOPTHELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9...”
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9
• Fill in ____ gaps in spatial ____
• Solve access to ____
• Provide relevant ____
• Develop further HELCOM GIS as a ____source
• Carry out consultations on activities with transboundary negative effect on environment
Fill in the blank spaces
• Develop MSP broad-scale principles
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9
• Fill in ____ gaps in spatial ____
• Solve access to ____
• Provide relevant ____
• Develop further HELCOM GIS as a ____source
• Carry out consultations on activities with transboundary negative effect on environment
data
data
data
data
Strong emphasis on the importance of data!
data
• Develop MSP broad-scale principles
WHO developed the principles?
Justin Litton
HELCOM SCALE2008-2009
They did it!
Sustainable management
Ecosystem approach
Long term perspective and objectives
Precautionary Principle
Participation and Transparency
High quality data and information basis
Transnational coordination and consultation
Coherent terrestrial and maritime spatial planning
Planning adapted to characteristics and special conditions at different areas
Continuous planning
10 principles
HELCOM Ministerial
Meeting
VASAB Ministerial
Meeting
2010
The ministers
decided to form the...
HELCOM-VASAB MSPWorking Group
They
adopted the
principles!
Now, the
group is part
of the
HELCOM
structure
What will happen next?
