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Das Verhältnis der Netzplanung zur Landesplanung Journal Artikel

Kurt Faßbender

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Jahrgang 19 (2021), Ausgabe 2, Seite 137 - 147

Since the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 1954, for reasons of competence in German planning law a distinction has to be made between general space planning and (specialised) sectoral planning. The general space planning consists of the three branches federal state planning, country planning of the Länder and urban land use planning. In the past, the construction of the electricity grid was mainly subject to country planning of the Länder. In 2011, the federal Energy Line Extension Acceleration Act (Netzausbaubeschleunigungsgesetz Übertragungsnetz – NABEG) introduced new sectoral planning procedures. Since then, the relationship between requirements of country planning of the Länder and the new sectoral planning procedures was disputed. The paper deals with this relationship and analyses the latest amendments of the NABEG that aim, inter alia, at clarifying this relationship.

Aktuelle Rechtsprechung zum europäischen Wasserrecht Journal Artikel

Kurt Faßbender

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Jahrgang 15 (2017), Ausgabe 2, Seite 152 - 166

The following paper presents and analyses current judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and of German administrative courts dealing with the environmental objectives outlined in Article 4 of the Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (Water Framework Directive –WFD). From a European point of view, the most important recent decision is the judgement of May 4, 2016, concerning the authorisation of a hydropower plant on the Schwarze Sulm River in Austria where the CJEU concluded that the construction of such a plant may be an overriding public interest in the meaning of Article 4 (7) of the WFD. According to the Court, in that regard, the Member States must be allowed a certain margin of discretion for determining whether a specific project is of such interest. Furthermore, the Court stated that, contrary to the Commission’s assertions, the Austrian authorities did analyse the contested project as a whole, including its direct and indirect impact on the objectives of Directive 2000/60, and weighed up the advantages of the project with its negative impact on the status of the body of surface water of the Schwarze Sulm. Thus, according to the CJEU all the conditions for a derogation from the objective to prevent deterioration of the status of bodies of surface water were taken into account and were rightly considered to be met.

Die Zuständigkeit des Bundes für die Umsetzung der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie an den Bundeswasserstraßen Journal Artikel

Aktuelle Rechtslage, Reformbedarf und Reformoptionen

Kurt Faßbender

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Jahrgang 14 (2016), Ausgabe 1, Seite 17 - 39

From the traditional and for a long time mainly agreed point of view of the German Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Administration of German Federal waterways laid down in Art. 89 (2) of the German Constitution (Basic Law) extends solely to the waterways as transport routes. Therefore, according to existing law, the Federal Administration is still, basically, limited to maintaining the inland waterways, as transport media, in a condition required for navigation whereas the German Länder authorities are mainly responsible for the achievement of the Environmental objectives outlined in Art. 4 of the Water Framework Directive. The following paper argues that there is no need anymore to limit the administrative powers of the Federal Administration to the waterways as transport routes, since the Federal Government now has, as a result of the Federalism Reform of 2006, concurrent legislative competence with regard to the water (industry and quality) regime. On this basis, the author briefly analyses the existing legislative framework with a focus on the recent amendments of the Water Industry Act (Wasserhaushaltsgesetz) that led to an important extension of the tasks of the Federal Administration concerning the ecologic quality of German Federal waterways. Nevertheless, the paper calls for a further reform of the existing legislative framework that allows an integrated achievement of the Environmental objectives outlined in the Water Framework Directive.

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