Tesla Giga Berlin May Change German Law With 2 Specific Ideas. Brandenburg Minister of Economic Affairs wants Tesla Turbo for offices because investors are annoyed that Giga Berlin's approval procedures and approval procedures for industrial settlements can take years.
Investors are annoyed that approval procedures for industrial settlements like Tesla Giga Berlin can take years. The Brandenburg Minister for Economic Affairs would therefore like to streamline the licensing law. However, his proposals are controversial.
The German bureaucracy is notorious, as is now known even in California. The US electric car group Tesla has long been planning to manufacture cars "made in Germany" in its new plant Giga Berlin in Grünheide (Oder-Spree). But the start of production in July 2021, originally planned by company boss Elon Musk, is long history.
The fact that it should be so far at the end of the year at the earliest is also due to the lengthy approval process. A nuisance for Musk, after all, the visionary entrepreneur is not exactly known for his angelic patience.
Third round of public participation for Tesla Giga Berlin’s approval is underway.
The process is currently stalled because the deadline for objections to the construction plans runs until mid-August. It is already the third round of citizen participation because Tesla once again extensively changed its plans. And with every such change, the official mills start their work all over again.
That pulls on the nerves of investors - and now also those of the Brandenburg state government. Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (SPD) wants to learn from the experience. “As far as the approval process is concerned, a process like the one we are going through with Tesla now has to be evaluated at the end of the entire time,” he says. "What went well at that point and what didn't, and what are the resulting needs for change?"
Steinbach now wants to have less bureaucracy and fewer courts.
Steinbach formulates two very specific ideas with which he wants to save time in future projects like Tesla Giga Berlin.
Firstly: the authorities should take a careful look if the investors' plans change. "If it turns out that you are making a process change that leads to less environmental impact, then the question is whether you have to start all the individual steps all over again - or whether you can sensibly integrate this into an ongoing process." That would mean that companies that opt for less environmentally harmful construction or production processes would not have to reset their ongoing approval procedures to zero. “I think a great acceleration is conceivable at this point,” said Steinbach.
His second proposal contains fewer legal hurdles. For large investors like Tesla, negotiations before administrative courts are difficult to predict time factor. In 2020, for example, environmental associations were able to legally stop the clearing work in Grünheide, at least temporarily. Even if the later decision was made in favor of Tesla, the company lost valuable time as a result of the process. And only a few days ago a second procedure ended when the Green League and the nature conservation association Nabu failed with their urgent application against early partial approvals for Tesla before the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court.
To ensure that such lengthy court decisions do not completely slow down major projects, Steinbach brings a review of the number of legal instances into play. The idea: The notifications of the competent licensing authority - in this case, the State Environment Agency - could only be checked by a court in the future. Instead of going to the administrative court first, plaintiffs would then have to go directly to the higher administrative court. One station of the legal process would be eliminated. "I'm definitely a fan of our constitutional state. And that's why I'm definitely a fan of the four-eyes principle," says Steinbach. "But we don't need three instances, we don't need a six-eyes principle."
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Reference
https://www.rbb24.de/studiofrankfurt/wirtschaft/tesla/2021/07/tesla-gruenheide-schneller-genehmigungen-wirtschaftsminister-steinbach.html
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