Parliament - Forest Act delayed due to legal concerns
Thuringia's state parliament president Birgit Pommer wants to wait until legal concerns have been clarified before announcing the forest law passed by the CDU, AfD and FDP. She has informed the parliamentary groups, the parliamentary group and the non-attached MPs of this, the state parliament announced on Thursday. The MDR had previously reported on this. Without the promulgation of the law, it cannot come into force for the time being.
The draft amendment to the Forest Act came from the FDP with the aim of making it more difficult to build wind turbines in Thuringia's forests. A general ban on wind turbines, which was in place until 2022, had been overturned as unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
In view of the case law, the red-red-green coalition had raised legal concerns about the proposed change to the law. Pommer has now also referred to this: the legislative competence of the state parliament in this case "was called into question both in the relevant expert committee and in the Council of Elders before the law was passed". An expert opinion commissioned from the scientific service by the Council of Elders could not be completed due to a lack of information. "The information is now to be made available by the state government as soon as possible," according to the statement from the state parliament. The scientific service will then complete the report without delay. Pommer then wants to decide "without delay whether the law can be drawn up and promulgated" on the basis of the report, it said.
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- Despite the legal concerns raised by the red-red-green coalition, the Forest Act was passed by the CDU, AfD, and FDP in Thuringia's state parliament, with a general ban on wind turbines in forests as proposed by the FDP.
- The MDR reported that Thuringia's state parliament president Birgit Pommer has delayed announcing the promulgation of the Forest Act due to ongoing legal concerns and the need for clarification.
- According to the statement from the state parliament, the legislative competence of the state parliament in this case was called into question by experts, and an expert opinion commissioned by the Council of Elders could not be completed due to a lack of information.
- Once the required information is made available by the state government, the scientific service will complete the report, and Pommer will decide whether the Forest Act can be drawn up and promulgated based on the report's findings, as stated by the CDU, AfD, and FDP members in Erfurt's State Parliament.
Source: www.stern.de
