It may quickly planned and built. However, this should not be at the expense of citizen participation, criticism of the German environmental aid.

According to the BDI, it will take 18 months, to a mobile phone mast in Germany approved photo: imago images

BERLIN dpa/taz | the tips of The black-red coalition will want to speed up planning and approval procedures in the transport and the digital sector. The coalition Committee agreed on the night to Monday on measures, including Changes in the species protection law and the regulations on the environmental impact of infrastructure measures.

in Addition, it is in the resolved vertices, the introduction of a "right to a secure material preclusion effect" for the areas of Rail, road and water street could lead to an acceleration of the approval process and court proceedings.

In the case of the German environmental help push these plans on critique. Although an accelerated planning of infrastructure projects is necessary; they should, however, be achieved by restriction of rights of participation for citizens and associations, said the Executive Director Sascha Müller-Kraenner on Monday.

A re-introduction of the so-called substantive Statute of limitations would be a clear infringement of EU law, said Müller-Kraenner. This means that citizens and organisations are likely to have legal objections, only at the beginning of the planning process argument and not in the course of the proceedings. Violations of nature protection legislation, but would be often in the course of the planning procedure.

A major cause of planning delays by the austerity of the last years induced insufficient staffing of the competent authorities, especially at the state and local level is also: Here recruitment, and improvements in the digital equipment could remedy the situation.

When the coalition Committee had agreed that the Union and the SPD in on Monday night to a faster planning laws and reducing bureaucracy. "We need an escape package," said the NRW Minister Armin Laschet the Newspapers of the Funke media group.

According to the industry Association BDI has doubled the length of proceedings in Germany in the last ten years, almost. To a mobile phone mast in Germany approved, it takes on average 18 months, in foreign countries, the value of which is at 4 to 6 months. "It must stop, that vested interests can delay inter-eating to the General public of the important investment part, about 10 or 20 years," called for recently, BDI-President Dieter Kempf.

The Union wants to restrict the right of action for environmental associations. "Each new project is now complained of, and questioned," said the head of the "Mittelstand" and economic Union of the CDU/CSU, Carsten Linnemann. Environmental groups should only be allowed to sue if the interests of the Association would be affected, or there had been no participation in the approval process. A paper on this proposal had been submitted to the Union last autumn.