Overview
- The Saxony Higher Administrative Court confirmed its December 10 decision as final and not subject to appeal, publishing detailed reasons on December 23.
- LEAG can proceed with a mining-law transfer effective January 1, 2026, to take a roughly 5,000-square-meter private forest plot near Rohne leased since 2019 to an environmental group.
- The court held that Germany’s statutory coal exit timetable is constitutional, citing Federal Constitutional Court jurisprudence.
- It found no sufficient coal alternative for Boxberg and Schwarze Pumpe and ruled that ensuring uninterrupted power supply outweighs the landowner’s objections.
- The Saxon mining authority had already approved the Grundabtretung after the owner refused to sell; the Nochten mine has operated since 1968 supplying the two plants.