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Upper Austrian Spatial Energy Planning Ordinance Part 1 - Exclusion zones

Notification Number:

2025/0164/AT (Austria)

Date received:

21/03/2025

End of Standstill:

24/06/2025

Draft Text:

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Impact assessment:

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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2025) 0816

Directive (EU) 2015/1535

Notification: 2025/0164/AT

Notification of a draft text from a Member State

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1. MSG 001 IND 2025 0164 AT EN 21-03-2025 AT NOTIF

2. Austria

3A. Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft
Abteilung V/8
A-1010 Wien, Stubenring 1
Telefon +43-1/71100-805436
Telefax +43-1/71100-805436
E-Mail: not9834@bmaw.gv.at

3B. Amt der Oö. Landesregierung
Direktion für Landesplanung, wirtschaftliche und ländliche Entwicklung
Abteilung Raumordnung
Telefon +43 732/77 20-125 29
E-Mail: ro.post@ooe.gv.at

4. 2025/0164/AT - N50E - Renewable energy

5. Upper Austrian Spatial Energy Planning Ordinance Part 1 - Exclusion zones

6. Wind power stations and free-standing photovoltaic systems

7.

8. The aim of this spatial planning programme is to preserve the quality and quantity of highly sensitive areas of Upper Austria in terms of nature conservation and landscape with regard to renewable energy installations by excluding the installation of wind power stations and free-standing photovoltaic systems in these areas.
Therefore, this Ordinance is intended to protect landscapes that are of vital importance for species and habitat protection at provincial level from the construction of wind power stations and free-standing photovoltaic systems on a sustainable basis.

These landscapes include:
• representative areas of large-scale landscapes and habitats in the Central European context that are largely free from anthropogenic modification, and/or
• habitats for strictly protected species in accordance with the EU Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive
and/or
• spaces of particular importance for cross-regional habitat connectivity.

9. In order to achieve appropriate province-wide management of spatial development in connection with these stations and systems, an overall planning is needed that takes into account both the interest in the developing renewable energies and the interest in preserving areas that are particularly sensitive in terms of nature conservation and landscape.

In addition to the acceleration areas suitable for renewable energy production, there are also sub-areas that are of vital importance at provincial level for species and habitat protection. These include parts of the last large landscapes in central Europe that are largely free of anthropogenic modification, as well as nationally important connectivity corridors for large game animals, or sub-spaces characterised by the cumulative presence of species sensitive to wind power stations in accordance with the EU Birds Directive and Habitats Directive. These spaces are defined as exclusion zones for the construction of wind power stations and/or free-standing photovoltaic systems.

This overall assessment can ensure that, on the one hand, Upper Austria can contribute to the implementation of the renewable energy production targets defined for Austria and that, on the other hand, the quality of Upper Austria’s most important natural spaces, which in some cases extend far into the Czech Republic, Lower Austria and into Styria, will continue to be preserved in terms of nature conservation.

10. Reference to the basic texts: No basic text available

11. No

12.

13. No

14. No

15. Yes

16.
TBT aspects: No

SPS aspects: No

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Disclosed messages

message-id	Year	Number	Country	Type	Title	Date received
111330	2025	0817	COMEuropean Commission	003	Receipt of the draft text	21-03-2025
111331	2025	0818	COMEuropean Commission	037	Competitiveness analysis	21-03-2025
111581	2025	1065	COMEuropean Commission	301	Request for supplementary information	10-04-2025

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