With announcement dated 20 January 2023, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) announced the publication of the site development plan 2023. With this revision the BSH secures the expansion targets for offshore wind energy, which have been increased to at least 30 GW by… Read More »Revision of the site development plan: Notice of publication of the site development plan 2023
By announcement of 28 October 2022, the BSH published a second draft of the site development plan. This second draft contains primarily amendments to the first draft of the site development plan as well as questions for consultation that have arisen in particular due to… Read More »Amendment of the site development plan: publication of the second draft
Today, the BSH announced the publication of the draft site development plan and the environmental reports for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The amendment and update of the site development plan was announced on 17 December 2021. A preliminary draft and an extended… Read More »Amendment of the site development plan: publication of the draft and the environmental reports
In the procedure for amending and updating the Site Development Plan, the BSH today published the statements on the extended preliminary draft. In addition, a statement is published that refers to a statement made on the preliminary draft of the Site Development Plan and on… Read More »Update of the Site Development Plan: Statements on the extended preliminary draft published
After the Maritime Spatial Plan 2021 for the German EEZ of the North Sea and Baltic Sea came into force on 01.09.2021 after extensive participation of authorities and the public, a spatial basis for the further expansion of offshore wind energy in the EEZ is… Read More »Amendment and update of the Site Development Plan
In the procedure for the amendment of the Site Development Plan 2020, the comments received were published on the BSH website https://www.bsh.de/EN/TOPICS/Offshore/Sectoral_planning/Site_development_plan/site_development_plan_node.htm after the end of the comment period. The subject of the amendment procedure initiated on September 17, 2021 is the definition of a… Read More »Procedure for the amendment of the Site Development Plan 2020: Comments published
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) participated in another meeting of the informal shipping group in the North Sea on the 2nd of September 2021. The participants of the seventh meeting of this group were from Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the… Read More »International exchange in the informal shipping group for the North Sea
Following an extensive process that included national and international consultation, the new maritime spatial plan came into force on 1 September 2021. Further information can be found on the websites of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) and the Federal Maritime… Read More »Maritime spatial plan 2021 entered into force
Today, the Ordinance on Maritime Spatial Planning in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea (AWZROV) from 19 August 2021 was published in the Bundesgesetzblatt Part I No. 58, p. 3886. The maritime spatial plan was published as… Read More »Publication of the maritime spatial plan in the Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt)
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has published two shipping reports on its website. Both studies were conducted and accompanied by the BSH last year. The report on shipping traffic in the entire North Sea was tendered and financed by the Federal Ministry… Read More »Publication of shipping reports