Overview

• Brandenburg’s Landtag special committee on bureaucracy reduction approved the draft bill on June 27 to cap environmental NGOs’ rights to sue over construction projects.
• The measure would eliminate participation rights for conservation organizations in projects judged to have no or only minor impacts on nature and landscape.
• It exempts developments up to 300 meters into protected areas and agri-photovoltaic installations in landscape protection zones from permit requirements.
• Additional provisions in the bill aim to simplify flood protection procedures and accelerate project approvals.
• BUND Brandenburg and Nabu Brandenburg have rallied over 4,000 petition signatures against the proposal and warn it risks silencing environmental voices while coalition MPs assert core conservation safeguards will remain in place.