A meeting of the planning authorities in the North Sea Region took place on the 28th of January 2022. Participants represented planning authorities from France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Furthermore, representatives from the North Sea Commission participated as well. Based on the… Read More »Meeting of the North Seas MSP collaboration group
In the procedure for amending and updating the Site Development Plan, the BSH today published the joint written statement of the transmission system operators on the preliminary draft of the plan. The other comments received on the preliminary draft of the Site Development Plan and… Read More »Update of the Site Development Plan: Joint statement of the transmission system operators and further comments 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
On 3 November 2021, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) initiated the participation of federal states and associations regarding the draft of the Second Ordinance on the Implementation of the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Second Offshore Wind Energy Ordinance – 2. WindSeeV) (deadline 15… Read More »Initiation of the participation of federal states and associations regarding the draft of the Second Offshore Wind Energy Ordinance
In order to further improve the user-friendliness and content of the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites, we would like to invite all users to participate in a short survey. The online questionnaire, which is available in German and English, and further information and can… Read More »Feedback questionnaire for further enhancement of the user-friendliness of the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites until October 31th, 2021
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