Article from 21.01.2021 | Last changed: 22.01.2021
Precautionary principle
… implementation are: section 5 para. 1 no. 2 of the Federal Immission Control Act (Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz), which obliges the operators of plants for which … the statutory principle of concern which is already enshrined in law. This can be found, for example, in section 32 and 48 of the German Federal Water Act, which set strict standards for the protection of surface waters and ground water in the granting of permits under the terms of laws pertaining to water. …