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You can participate in ongoing spatial impact assessments.

In a spatial impact assessment, the responsible regional planning authority examines whether major spatially significant projects appear to be feasible in a spatially and environmentally compatible manner at the desired location. The spatial impact assessment concludes with an expert, non-binding opinion.

Such spatially significant projects include, among others

• Wind farms
• Mining of mineral resources, such as
  • coal or
  • ores
• Road and rail construction
• Natural gas transmission lines
• High-voltage power lines

The state authority assesses the effects in the following areas in particular:

• Society
• Economy
• infrastructure
• environment

If a spatial planning authority assesses the spatial impact of a potential project, it makes this public.

As a citizen, company or representative of public interests, you can participate in an ongoing spatial impact assessment after the announcement by submitting a statement. You have at least one month to do so.

By participating, you can contribute to the assessment.

There are no costs.

You can comment on the spatial impact assessment or submit a statement from the public announcement onwards. Comments should be submitted electronically.

• The competent authority collects and reviews all comments received. It takes into account all private and public interests.
• The spatial impact assessment concludes with an expert, non-binding opinion.

There are no indications or special features.

• You cannot appeal against the result of the spatial impact assessment, as this assessment has no direct legal effect. However, the result can be reviewed if an appeal is lodged against an approval decision in the subsequent planning and approval phase.

• Spatial impact assessment decision
• Spatial impact assessment examines whether spatially significant project plans are spatially compatible and concludes with an expert, non-binding opinion
• It is an optional upstream procedure for urban land-use planning or technical approval procedures, for example in the case of
  • wind farms
  • Mining of mineral resources, such as
    • coal or
    • ores
  • Road and rail construction
  • Natural gas transmission lines
  • High-voltage power lines
• The responsible regional planning authority assesses the effects in the following areas in particular:
  • Society
  • Economy
  • infrastructure
  • environment
• the public, i.e. citizens, businesses and public interest bodies, can comment on the spatial impact assessment and express their views as part of the participation process
• comments should be submitted electronically
• Responsible: the authority responsible for spatial planning