1. MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING IN POLAND
Dziwnów
Fot. Piotr Domaradzki
Andrzej Cieślak
Maritime Office in Gdynia

2. Polish Sea Areas EEZ – 22634 km2 E; TS – 8682 km2; ISW – 1991 km2

3. Maritime Administration in Poland MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURE
BASICS
Maritime Administration in Poland
responsible for spatial planning
MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURE
(minister responsible for maritime economy)
National level
3 MARITIME OFFICES
Regional level
Gdynia
Słupsk
Szczecin 3

4. Main Legal Basis
Act on Sea Areas of the Republic of Poland and Maritime Administration (1991, MSP through amendment in 2003)
Act on Spatial Planning and Management (2003)
Water Law (2001)
Act on Protection of Environment (2001)
Act on Nature Conservation (2004)
Act on Access to Information on Environment and its Protection, Public Participation in Protection of Environment, and on Environmental Impact Assessments (2008)

5. Main legal solutions
Within territorial sea and internal sea waters, the State is the sole owner of sea areas (soil beneath seafloor, seafloor, water column, air above)
Draft plans developed by Directors of Maritime Offices
Draft plans for territorial sea and int. sea waters must obtain agreement of neighbouring coastal communes
SEA required
Plan accepted and published as Ministerial Order by the Minister responsible for matters of building , spatial management and housing in agreement with the Minister responsible for maritime matters, after obtaining agreement of ministers of agriculture, national defence, environment, internal affairs

6. Main legal solutions (cont.)
Plans to decide on:
assignment of the internal sea areas, territorial sea and the EEZ
prohibitions and limitations on the use of areas covered by the plan, taking into account the requirements of nature protection
the distribution of public investments
directions of development of transport and of technical infrastructure
areas and conditions of environment and historical heritage protection

7. Pilot MSP for the Puck Bay (Interreg III B /CADSES)
Objectives
to test planning procedures and techniques (int. Alia 4D space, the including of sea/land & land/sea interactions),
to gather experience for improvements of legislation on MSP,
to obtain a basis for daily comprehensive and integrated management of the area (best available knowledge)
The first picture shows the division of the planning area into „water basins” (corresponding to „terrains” in terrestrial planning)
The second picture shows the uses (note that different uses may be located on the seafloor, water column and sea surface within the same „basin”, e.g. habitat protection, certain kinds of fishing, navigation &boating and windsurfing)

8. Final Meeting Meeting Ravenna 27.03.08

9. Final Meeting Meeting Ravenna 27.03.08

11. Lessons learned We succeeded because
the team was multidisciplinary and engaged in parallel in a range of planning processes in Poland (at national and regional level)
there was a relative richness of information (especially nature, historical heritage)
there was a vision of the planned area
planning documents existed for all coastal communities
a wide range of stakeholders was involved before start of the planning exercise itself
Could be more successful if coastal communities better understood their stake in sea use planning
The hardest part of the work was the operationalisation of the 4D sea space and still insufficient data and information 11

12. Lessons learned
The longest part of the work was iteration and data collection
What surprised us most was the lack of spatial thinking among many researchers – they had difficulties with transferring their knowledge into spatial terms
Next time we would reserve more time for the planning process
We recommend especially good pre-planning preparation (production, collection of comprehensive environmental, economical, social etc. data) 12

13. Main improvements of law (to be shortly submitted to the Sejm (Polish Parliament)
Planning procedure started by Ministerial Order of the Minister responsible for maritime matters
Plan accepted by same Minister
Significantly extended procedures, especially for planning the territorial sea and internal sea waters, including public participation mechanisms
Inclusion of regional (voivodship) authorities in agreements of draft plans (including EEZ)
Plans to be produced in scales:
1:200,000 and 1:400,000 – strategic plans (partly binding)
1:25,000, 1:10,000 and for ports, harbours, bathing waters at least 1:2000 (exceptionally1:5000) – binding local law
Possibility of including important trans-coastline land/sea issues in respectively MSPs and terrestrial plans

14. Main improvements (cont.)
Plans to decide on:
Designation of sea basins
System of sea basins for sea transport incl. safety of navigation
Systems of protected sea areas, incl. environment, nature, landscape, historical and heritage protection and for health
Distribution of supra-local importance public investments
Sea basins closed temporarily and/or permanently and their protective zones
Distribution of mining areas
Limitations and principles of use of sea space
In case of strategic plans: designation of sea areas to be planned in scales 1:25,000 and larger
In progress: work on Ministerial Order on required scope of MSPs in their textual and graphic parts, requirements concerning planistic materials, cartographic elaborations, symbols used in the plans, requirements concerning the standards and ways of documenting the planning work

15. Example of large-space issues
Optimum location of wind farms 15

16. Example of large-space issues16

17. Some Follow-up Activities
The National Spatial Development Concept (final version early 2010) shall concern also the sea area – introduction of the experience of the Pilot Project into the Concept
Development of vision / strategic plan for the whole Polish sea area and, gradually, of sea use plans for all problem areas – int. alia within VASAB & HELCOM activities, BaltSeaPlan project
Development of a spatial vision/strategic plan for the whole Baltic Sea – within VASAB and HELCOM activities, EU projects
Further development / improvement of procedures (cross-border consultation), also joint planning with Russia (East-West Window project and continuation) 17

18. Thank you
Phot.: Piotr Domaradzki