On 05.06.2024, the BSH defined the scope for the strategic environmental assessment for the ongoing procedure to update and amend the site development plan, including the coverage and level of detail of the information to be included in the environmental report in accordance with Section… Read More »Site development plan: Scope for the strategic environmental assessment
The UK Government has notified Germany that Five Estuaries has submitted an application for development consent for the “Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm” off the east coast of England, approximately 37 km off the coast of Suffolk in the UK Exclusive Economic Zone. Five Estuaries… Read More »Transboundary participation according to Section 59 para. 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Act on the transboundary environmental impact assessment regarding the application by Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Ltd (the Applicant) for an Order Granting Development Consent for the Five Estuaries Offshore Wind in the British Exclusiv Zone of the east coast of England
RWE Renewables Sweden intends to construct the Ymer wind farm in the southern Baltic Sea. The offshore wind farm is to be built approximately 47 km southeast of the coast of Blekinge in Sweden. The area of the wind farm is located within the Swedish… Read More »transboundary participation according to Section 59 para. 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Act on the transboundary environmental impact assessment regarding a planned offshore windfarm “Ymer” in Sweden´s exclusive economic zone of the Baltic Sea
The Swedish EnvironmentalProtection Agency notified Germany that Zephyr Baltic Offshore AB plans to apply for permit to construct and operate the offshore wind farm ‘Kapheira” in Swedish exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The Kapheira wind farm is planned to be located between Gotland and the Swedish… Read More »transboundary participation according to Section 59 para. 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Act on the transboundary environmental impact assessment regarding a planned offshore windfarm “Kapheira” in Sweden´s exclusive economic zone of the Baltic Sea
The BSH issued the planning approval decision for the offshore grid-connection “BorWin4 and BorWin delta”on 06 March 2024 based on Section 45 of the Offshore Wind Energy Act in the version applicable until 31 December 2022 in connection with Section 74 of the Administrative Procedure… Read More »BSH announces planning approval decision for the construction and operation of the offshore grid-connection “BorWin4/ delta”
The regulation in § 69 (1) WindSeeG (in the version of 01.01.2023) stipulates that in future an expert opinion must be submitted at least twelve weeks before the start of construction to prove compatibility with the minimum requirements of the Standard Design. For procedures within… Read More »Publication of a template for the preparation of the expert opinion pursuant to § 69 (1) WindSeeG and a leaflet with instructions
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has published the results of the central preliminary investigation for the construction of offshore wind farms in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The results are available on the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites (PINTA). According to… Read More »Publishing the results of the central preliminary investigation of sites N-9.1, N-9.2 and N-9.3 for the construction of offshore wind farms in the German EEZ
On 28 February 2024, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency notified the neighbouring states in the North Sea and Baltic Sea of the initiation of the update and amendment of the site development plan in accordance with the protocol on strategic environmental assessment in a… Read More »Notification of the neighbouring states pursuant to Art. 10 SEA protocol on strategic environmental assessment in a transboundary context on the initiation of the update and amendment of the site development plan
The 2021 maritime spatial plan is the subject of a scientific paper published in January 2024 by a team of BSH authors. The paper describes the main changes that have taken place since the first maritime spatial plans came into force in 2009, considering both… Read More »Scientific paper on the 2021 EEZ plan
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) participated in the DG Mare project “eMSP NBSR – Emerging Ecosystem-based Maritime Spatial Planning Topics in the North and Baltic Sea Regions” which recently had its final conference in Gdansk (https://www.emspproject.eu/). The project worked with so-called “communities of… Read More »eMSP NBSR project results published