The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) participated in another meeting of the informal shipping group in the North Sea on the 14th of October 2020. The participants of the fifth meeting of this group were from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway… Read More »International exchange in the informal shipping group for the North Sea
On the 30th of September 2020, a bilateral meeting took place between the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI), the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and colleagues from the competent authorities for maritime spatial planning in Poland. Both sides presented at… Read More »Bilateral exchange with Poland
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has published today the draft maritime spatial plan for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as the environmental reports. The documents are based on the results of the… Read More »Publication of the draft maritime spatial plan and the draft environmental reports
On the 15th of September 2020, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) invited to the 9th meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board for the revision of the maritime spatial plans for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The meeting was organized as an… Read More »Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board for the revision of the maritime spatial plans for the German Exclusive Economic Zone, 15th September 2020
On the 17th of September 2020, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) defined the investigation framework for the strategic environmental assessment for the revision of the maritime spatial plans in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.… Read More »Definition of the investigation framework
The maritime spatial plans in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North and Baltic Seas are currently revised by the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). In recent months, after the national and international participation, progress on the draft plans has been… Read More »Current status of the revision of the maritime spatial plans
On the 19th of June 2020, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) publicly announced the initiation of the procedure for revising and amending the Site Development Plan (FEP) and the anticipated scope of the revision and amendment. The preliminary draft of the Site… Read More »Display of the draft of the Site Development Plan 2020 and the drafts of the environmental reports (North Sea and Baltic Sea) within the scope of the strategic environmental assessment
A bilateral exchange between the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and its Dutch colleagues took place on the 28th of August 2020. This included an exchange on general planning topics as well as the current status of the revision of the maritime spatial… Read More »Bilateral exchange with the Netherlands
On the 07th of August 2020, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) defined the investigation framework for the site investigation and strategic environmental assessment of sites for offshore wind farms. The documents for sites N-6.6 and N-6.7 in the North Sea Exclusive Economic… Read More »BSH publishes investigation framework for offshore sites
In the process to examine the suitability, inter alia, of the site O-1.3 for the construction and operation of wind turbines, the BSH publishes supplementary information on biotope protection law and the new version of a rule Species protection with the opportunity to comment. The… Read More »Public display of further decision-relevant reports and supplements to the suitability examination