1.
Maritime Spatial Planning in Sweden
Central Baltic Stakeholder Conference
31 May – 1 June 2016

2.
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

3.
Swedish MSP
borders on:
9 neighbouring
countries (MSP)
And overlaps with:
65 municipalities
(comprehensive
plans)
14 regions and
counties (regional
plans and strategies)
Cooperation

4.
Overlapping plans

5.
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