Perspektiven der Raumordnung in Europa

Abstract

Guidelines of the EU for the maritime spatial planning are to be expected in the foreseeable future. Such guidelines will be targeted to achieve a harmonisation of the spatial planning legislation within the member states and will also impact the spatial planning legislation onshore. This process should be actively accompanied by German institutions to contribute national learnings—and, not at least, to avoid unfavourable developments on a European level which have been recognized nationally. Such harmonising stipulations of the European legislation include organisational regulations regarding a “single body” to be nominated by the member states, substantive rules in regard to a commitment of spatial planning to sustainability and supra-regional as well as cross-disciplinary actions, in terms of instrumentation via a coordinated use of binding specifications in spatial plans on the one hand and informal instruments on the other hand, via the application of the spatial planning procedures within the maritime area and furthermore via the assignment of new tasks to the spatial planning (bodies), as monitoring and mediation. Finally, the former priority of the European nature conservation legislation has to be replaced by a balancing consideration within the scope of spatial planning.