Although Latvia has a maritime spatial planning document with five priority study areas (~1648 km²), there is no specific offshore wind law yet. The draft law ‘On offshore wind park in Latvian offshore waters and the fourth Latvia-Estonia interconnection’ which was intended to regulate the planned offshore wind farm ELWIND on the Latvian side has not yet been adopted. Currently, the regulations originally developed for offshore mining are applied to offshore wind projects.
See Marine Environment Protection and Management Law, Construction Regulations for Structures in the Internal Waters, Territorial Waters and Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Latvia (Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 631, 14.10.2014.)