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Dilemma of Boundaries in the Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Finnish Experiences from the Public Consultations. Juha-Markku Leppänen Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute. Boundaries uniting and separating. Implementation of the MSFD in Finland. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dilemma of Boundaries in the Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Finnish Experiences from the Public Consultations
Juha-Markku LeppänenMarine Research Centre
Finnish Environment Institute
Boundaries uniting and separating
● Main responsibility: the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Traffic and Communication;
● To be adopted by the Council of the State;● Implementation assisted by the Centres for Economic
Development, Transport and the Environment located at coastal areas and governmental research institutes;
● Basically same administrational structures as created for the WFD to be used;
● Specific Coordination and Expert Groups to carry out the practical work
● Åland Island, as the autonomous region, makes its own marine strategy, which will be a part of the Finnish one
Implementation of the MSFD in Finland
● In “Main Finland” between 16 April and 15 May ○ In Finnish and Swedish
• Åland Island organized its own regional consultation
● Divided into the countrywide consultation and the regional ones
● The Ministry of Environment requested opinions of other ministries, governmental institutions and countrywide stakeholder
● The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment took care of the consultation in their districts○ directed mainly to municipalities and local stakeholders
● The consultation document was publicly available in the Internet for anyone to comment
Public Consultation
● The importance of a marine strategy was not questioned!● Boundaries between the Directives
○ Many comments were related to the significant water management issues of the WFD
○ The added value of the MSFD in the coastal area was questioned● Administrative boundaries
○ Cooperation within national administrational sectors still ambiguous○ Regional state administrative bodies are quite independent
● Boundaries between the sectors○ The proposed marine strategy either too weak or too ambitious
● Geographic boundaries○ Need for transboundary coordination not understood○ Coastal-open sea boundary confusing○ One marine strategy vs. river basins difficult○ Local problems vs. GES○ Spatial scope
Dilemma of boundaries
Summary● The responses received from ministries, central
organisations and stakeholders mainly well structured.● The general public touched mainly very local and even
personal topics and responses were “unstructured”. Recommendations● Public consultations for the MSFD and the WFD should be
carried out at the same time.● Different stakeholders should be better take into account
when preparing the consultation material e.g. for general public a structured electronic questionnaire should be developed.
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