Naturschutzrechtliche Vorschriften Befreiung

§ 14 Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG)
www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bnatschg_2009/__14.html
§15 Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG)
www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bnatschg_2009/__15.html
§§ 23 ff Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG)
www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bnatschg_2009/__23.html
§ 67 Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG)
www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bnatschg_2009/__67.html
Hamburg Law on the Implementation of the Federal Nature Conservation Act
www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-BNatSchGAGHArahmen/part/X

You want to carry out an action that harms protected wild animals, plants or nature and landscapes. You may need a special permit or exemption from nature conservation prohibitions.

The Federal Nature Conservation Act regulates the treatment of wild animals and wild plants as well as the protection of special areas, such as nature reserves and landscape protection areas.

You may not, without a reasonable reason, impair animal species or plant species and their habitats - often legally protected biotopes - as well as trees that are protected in Hamburg by the Tree Protection Ordinance through your actions.

If you want to carry out an action, an intervention, a plan or a project (for example a construction measure, a renovation or the commissioning of a system), you must inform the responsible authority. The responsible authority will then examine how likely it is that you could violate nature conservation bans during your measure.

You violate nature conservation law bans if your measure results in impacts on the protected assets (e.g. animals, plants, biotopes, trees, protected areas and natural monuments) that lead to a significant increase in the intensity of the impact on nature and the landscape compared to the previous state. The responsible authority must then clarify whether statutory exemptions apply or whether you need an exemption or exemption from the respective prohibitions in order to be able to carry out your project.

The keeping and breeding of invasive alien species is also prohibited and may require a permit.

You must submit reports and site plans as a rule. However, the documents you need to submit vary depending on the type and extent of your intended intervention. It is therefore advisable that you coordinate this with the responsible authority at an early stage.

No

The costs vary depending on the type and scope of the permit or exemption requested

The processing time depends on the type and scope of the individual case. However, you must expect a processing time of several months.

No. However, you must have any necessary special permits or exemptions before you start carrying out your project.

Examples of projects that may require special approval or an exemption:

• Destruction or removal of nests (for example on facades or in attics as part of thermal insulation measures)
• Elimination of special habitat structures (e.g. striking cave trees, hedges, rest areas, rare special biotopes)
• You would like to build something or carry out renovations (roof, facade, etc.).
• You would like to build, cut down, redesign something or hold an event or other activity in a landscape protection area or nature reserve.
• You want to cut down a tree

Permission to fell a tree can already be applied for online in Hamburg.

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Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture