regulations of the nature protection and conservation area issues on
ferderal level
most important instrument is the regulation of interference based on
§ 8, which obliges
responsible parties to "refrain from avoidable interferences with
nature and landscape
as well as to compensate for unavoidable interferences by means of nature
protection
and conservation of the countryside" (§ 8 Abs. 2 BNatSchG)
the erection of wecs is to be categorized as an interference with nature
and countryside
guidelines of the Federal Nature Conservation Law are being further
specified by the
Landscape Law in North Rhine-Westphalia
interference regulation is based on the Landscape Law in North
Rhine-Westphalia in § 4
wecs are generally considered an interference with nature according
to the Landscape Law,
"the erection of up to 2 wecs in close proximity, however, is NOT
considered an interference
with nature any longer according to the changed Landscape Law from June,
19th 1994