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Infrastructure Future Act

enactedGermany· German Bundestag· DE

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19 December 2025

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Verkündet

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Summary

Measures to accelerate the planning and approval processes for infrastructure projects, especially in the areas of transport and energy: Determination of the overriding public interest and public safety for the new, expansion and replacement construction of railways, federal highways and waterways, granting protection priority for defense-relevant infrastructure, inclusion of all from the special infrastructure fund and climate neutrality (SVIK) financed transport infrastructure measures, abolition of duplication of procedures in the transport sector through spatial planning procedures and line regulations, merging similar procedural regulations from the specialist laws in the Administrative Procedure Act, exclusively digital implementation of plan approval procedures, simplification of approval procedures for the modernization of the rail infrastructure as well as crossing measures, equal priority of compensation payments for nature conservation compensation and replacement measures for all federal projects in the overriding public interest, simplification of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) obligations for rail measures, spatial planning relief for pumped storage power plants; editorial changes, adjustments and corrections, subsequent changes;<br /> Insertion, cancellation and Changes to numerous §§ and appendices in 17 laws and 1 legal ordinance<br /> <br /> <strong>Recommendation of the committee:</strong> further simplifying and accelerating changes to procedural requirements for planning and approval procedures, including strengthening the instrument of freedom of planning rights, clarifying the responsibilities of the Federal Railway Authority in the area of environmental law, additional definition of the outstanding public interest regarding the repair, expansion, replacement, construction or expansion of tunnel structures, bridges, rest areas on federal highways, sea and inland ports as well as airports as well as flood and coastal protection measures, taking into account numerous recommendations of the Federal Council, including the special need for confidentiality of data relating to critical infrastructures, enabling the comprehensive use of SVIK funds from the states, standardization of the requirements for the use of fully automated driving functions when operating a locomotive, clarifications, editorial adjustments, consequential changes;<br /> Renewed and additional changes as well as additional insertion and repeal of numerous sections and appendices in 19 laws and 2 legal regulations

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