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

Eutrophication

  • Euro 5 and Euro 6 emission standards for vehicles to reduce nitrogen emissions and the deposition of nitrogen
  • Regulation (EU) No 259/2012 restricting the use of phosphates in detergents
  • Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution to abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol; Treaty Series of the Statute Book of Finland 40/2005)
  • International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78; Treaty Series of the Statute Book of Finland 51/1983)
  • Government Decree on Limiting Certain Emissions from Agriculture (1250/2014) to reduce nitrogen loading caused by the processing and storage of manure and fertilisation
  • Provisions of the Land Use and Building Act (132/1999), the Water Services Act (119/2001) and Flood Risk Management Act (620/2010) in the management of stormwater and meltwater
  • Forest Act (1093/1996) and the Temporary Act on the Financing of Sustainable Forestry (34/2015) from the perspective of water protection in peatland and other forestry
  • Government Decree on Urban Waste Water Treatment (888/2006) implementing Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment
  • Prohibition against the discharge of untreated sewage from ships in Finnish waters set in the Act on Environmental Protection in Maritime Transport (1672/2009)
  • Stormwater management plans to be prepared under section 103 l of the Land Use and Building Act
  • Government Decree on Treating Domestic Wastewater in Areas Outside Sewer Networks (209/2011)
  • Provisions of the Water Act (587/2011) and Environmental Protection Act (527/2014) regulating water protection, such as environmental permits regulating activities subject to a permit under the Acts (municipal wastewater treatment plants, industrial installations, fish farms, peat production sites, farm animal facilities)
  • Measures to reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive (75/2010/EU) implemented by the Environmental Protection Act (527/2014)
  • Government decree on water resources management issues (Valtioneuvoston asetus vesitalousasioista 1560/2011)
  • Environmental Protection Act (527/2014) and Decree (713/2014)
  • Act on the protection of the sea (Merensuojelulaki 1415/1994)
  • Government decree (2/2000) implementing the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area
  • Act on the exclusive economic zone of Finland (Laki Suomen talousvyöhykkeestä 1058/2004)
  • Act on Environmental Protection in Maritime Transport (1672/2009)
  • Recommendation agreement between the Ministry of the Environment, the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities and the Finnish Water Utilities Association (FIWA) of 24 January 2012 to reduce eutrophying nutrient loading on surface waters from municipal wastewater treatment plants
  • Tapio’s Best Practice Guidelines for Sustainable Forest Management (2012) and voluntary forest certification in forestry water protection
  • Guidelines for environmental protection from the perspective of water protection (e.g. in fish farming, peat production and forestry)
  • Environmental Strategy for Transport 2013–2020 regarding the reduction of nitrogen emissions from transport and protecting the Baltic Sea Programmes and strategies for fish farming (National Aquaculture Programme 2015, National aquaculture location management plan, Aquaculture Strategy 2022)
  • Rural Development Programme for Mainland Finland 2014–2020 in water protection in agriculture
  • National aquaculture location management plan (2014)
  • National Forest Strategy 2025 (Government Resolution of February 2015)
  • Government resolution on the sustainable and responsible use and conservation of mires and peatlands of 30 August 2012