How the current measures are targeted to descriptors of the state of marine environment:

Biodiversity of nature

  • National assessment of threatened habitat types in Finland (LuTu) (2008)
  • The 2010 Red List of Finnish Species
  • Current situation and development needs in the protection of natural habitat types – statutory safeguarding measures (2013)
  • Species in urgent need of protection (2013)
  • Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy
  • Directive 2014/89/EU establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning and the maritime spatial plans to be completed in 2021 under the Directive
  • Hunting Act (615/1993)
  • Act on Implementing the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union (1139/1994)
  • Government decree on salmon fishing restrictions in the Gulf of Bothnia and the Simojoki river (Valtioneuvoston asetus lohenkalastuksen rajoituksista Pohjanlahdella ja Simojoessa 190/2008)
  • Fishing Act (379/2015) and Decree (1360/2015)
  • Act on the exclusive economic zone of Finland (Laki Suomen talousvyöhykkeestä 1058/2004)
  • Act on strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes (Laki viranomaisten suunnitelmien ja ohjelmien ympäristövaikutusten arvioinnista 200/2005, the SEA Act)
  • Act (468/1994, the EIA Act) and Decree (713/2006, the EIA Decree) on Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure
  • Act on strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes (Laki viranomaisten suunnitelmien ja ohjelmien ympäristövaikutusten arvioinnista 200/2005, the SEA Act)
  • Water Act (587/2011)
  • Environmental Protection Act (527/2014) and Decree (713/2014)
  • Government decree (2/2000) implementing the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area
  • Land Use and Building Act (132/1999)
  • Nature Conservation Act (1096/1996) and Decree (160/1997)
  • Water Act (587/2011) as a way of implementing Natura 2000 sites in marine areas
  • Planning wind farm construction (2012) through regional land use plans
  • Guidelines on dredging and deposit operations (2015)
  • National Aquaculture Programme 2015
  • National programme for professional fishing 2015
  • Finnish Coastal Zone Strategy implementing the EU recommendation concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe (2002/413/EC)
  • VELMU – the Finnish Inventory Programme for the Underwater Marine Environment, 2004–2015
  • Protection and use plan for sea trout populations in the Gulf of Finland (2001)
  • Finland’s National Eel Management Plan (2008) implementing Regulation (EC) No 1100/2007 establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of European eel
  • Action plan for improving the state of threatened habitat types in Finland (2011)
  • Management plan for the Finnish seal populations in the Baltic Sea (2007)
  • National Fish Passage Strategy (Government Resolution of 8 March 2012)
  • National salmon and sea trout strategy for the Baltic Sea area 2020 (Government Resolution of 16 October 2014)
  • Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Finland for the years 2012–2020, ‘Saving Nature for People’ regarding combating invasive alien species (Government
  • Resolution of 20/12/2006)
  • National Shore Conservation Programme (Government Resolution of 20 December 1990), as part of the protection of habitats
  • Government decision on Finland’s national land use guidelines (30 November 2000)