CHAPTER IV • Governance structure
Poltical Level UN-Level
Administrative bodies
EU-Level
Laws and formal competencies Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro 1. Natura 2000 Directives (Flora-Fauna and Habitat Directive 92/43/EEC and Bird Protection Directive 2009/147/ EC) 2. Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC)
Federal government of German Ministry of Environment, NaGermany ture Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) with the Federal Agency of Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Environmental Office (UBA)
3. Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) 1. German Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) 2. Federal Water Resource Law (WHG) 3. German Species Protection Act (BArtSchV) 4. Federal Immission Protection Law (BImSchG)
State/ Land
5. National Strategy for Sustainability State Water Resource Law (LWaG)
State Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection [Highest Nature Conservation Execution Law regional nature conservation authority] (NatSchAG M-V) Expert Landscape Program (GLP)
State Office of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Geology [High nature conservation authority] Region
Community level
Regional Agencies for Agriculture and Environment [Authority for nature conservation]
Regulation of the Landscape conservation area of the Greifswald Bay (2008) Expert Landscape Structure Plan FFH-Management Plan Voluntary agreement on nature conservation, water sports and recreational fishing in the GWB and Strelasund
Department of the national parks and of- Regulation of the Southeast Rügen fices of biosphere reserve [Administration Biosphere Reserve of large conservation areas] Elected head of administrative district (Landrat/Landrätin) and
community mayors of the independent cities (kreisfreie Städte) [Lower nature conservation authority]
Communal landscape plan Green ordinance plan
Head officials and community mayors Environmental authorities at different political levels in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany
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