Impact regulation

The impact regulation in accordance with § 14 ff. BNatSchG are intended to avoid and minimize the negative consequences of interventions in nature and the landscape. The polluter is obliged to compensate for unavoidable impairments through nature conservation and landscape management measures (compensatory measures) or to replace them (replacement measures). The impact regulation is to be applied in outdoor urban development areas; in indoor areas, it is generally taken into account in advance when determining development plans. The nature conservation compensation must be targeted (a mere set-aside is not permitted) and must be secured and maintained by the person who caused the intervention or their legal successor for as long as the intervention continues.

Interference with nature and the landscape must always be avoided. If this is not possible, the impact should preferably be compensated for on site in a timely and function-related manner. If no equivalent compensation is possible, an equivalent replacement must be carried out in the affected natural area. Compensation measures do not have to be carried out in the immediate vicinity of the place of impact, nor do they necessarily have to be function-related (example: for 500 m² of newly sealed arable land, 1000 m² of previously intensively used grassland is converted to extensive use). Only if none of these alternatives are possible should the so-called compensation payment to the Thuringia Nature Conservation Foundation be considered, whereby the amount of money is based on the costs saved for compensation/replacement and is used elsewhere for nature conservation measures.