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Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environmental Planning
Gregor StephaniLegal affairs of immission control
Ministry of the Environment Baden-Württemberg([email protected])
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environmental Planning in Germany•Germany is a Federation consisting of 16 federal states (Länder)
•Federation provides legislation on the field of environment protection
•Implementation and enforcement is task of the Länder
•Environmental Planning not mandatory
•Baden-Württemberg is the only federal state with an environment plan
•Reason: Governments are reluctant in committing itself on long term objectives
•Action plans in the eighties
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environment Plan Baden-Württemberg
•Environment plan (EP) is political guideline
Thorough analysis of state of the environment, problems and causes
Setting of objectives
Describe ways and means to achieve the objectives
Names the responsible parties, timetable and potential costs
•First issued in 2001, update in 2007
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environment Plan Baden-Württemberg
•Provisions for controlling
•Aims at a consensus between interest groups
•Competent authority: Ministry for the Environment
•Technical assistance (data, analysis): Environment Protection
Agency LUBW, research institutes
•Participation process of stakeholders
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Contents1 Sustainable use of natural resources
2 Climate change
6 Soil protection
7 Conservation of biodiversity
8 Waste management
3 Immission control
4 Noise abement
5 Water protection
9 Risk management
New (update 2007)10 Education in sustainable development
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
•Environment reporting system
Every three years the LUBW edits fact and figures on the environment for Baden-Württemberg (lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de).
These include an analysis and assessment of the findings.
•Counselling by a high rank „sustainability council“
•Evaluation and discussion in public and parlament
Controlling
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
•Project management: Umweltministerium ---- LUBW
•Interministerial working group (state chancellery, economics, rural affairs social affairs)
•Sustainability council (high level experts from science, business, social sector)
•Round tables (associations, NGOs, local authorities)
•Expert working groups – inhouse and external
Structure and organisation of the planning process
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
•Vertical: Takes into account objectives set out by
EC (former environmental actions plans; EC sustainability
strategy)
German federation: sustainability strategy
Integration into other plans
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Integration into other plans •Horizontal:
Part of sustainability strategy Baden-Württemberg
EP contains the Government‘s environmental political guidelines –
has to be considered in the overall state land use planning, regional
spatial planning
Basis of environmental assessment of EC operational programme
of structural funds
Sets objectives for sectoral environmental plans, such as waste management plan, clean air action plans, climate change, noise abatement
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Sustainability Strategy
Coordination level
Leadership level
Working groups
working on6 fields of action
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environmentplan within
Overall State Land Use plan(Landesentwicklungsplan)
Overall concept of spatial development
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Areas of outstanding importance for
nature conservation Axes of development
Natura 2000 areas
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Influence on projects
•EP does not include certain projects
•EP influences indirectly the appraisal and approval of projects
Fund for implementing the EP 2 mio. Euro / year
Fund for implementing the SD-strategy 2,5 mio. Euro / year
during a
4 year period
EC structural funds: 6,5 mio. Euro / year during a 7 year period
Water protection 85 mio. Euro / year
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
•Findings in EP as basis for the assess-
ment of the environment
•Commissioner for the environment
Appraisal of projects
Drafting guidelines for staff
•Sub-programmes for enhancing the
environmental performance
energy efficiency, environmental techno-
logies, use of renwables for heating,
modern technologies in waste water treat-
ment, flood control
Influence on EC structural funds programme
Gregor StephaniUmweltministerium Baden-Württemberg
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EU-Twinning Project RO/2006/IB/EN/09 Implementation and Enforcement of the Environmental Acquis
at National Level and Coordination of 8 Regional Twinning ProjectsPhase II
Environmental Planning WorkshopBucharest, October 2008
Environmentplan Baden-Württemberg on the web:
www.umweltplan.baden-wuerttemberg.de