Action plan
An action plan lists the individual steps required to achieve goals.
politics
Used as a state policy instrument, an action plan contains the description of the problem and the need for action, defines the goals to be achieved, prioritizes them or sets priorities and bundles existing or new measures to achieve these goals. An action plan is developed in a participatory manner and through the involvement of non-state actors. By adopting an action plan, the actors publicly express their political will to implement the adopted measures within a certain period of time.
Action plans can be found in all policy areas and on international (e.g. International Action Plan on Aging , 1982), European (e.g. EU Action Plan FLEGT , 2002), national (e.g. National Energy Efficiency Action Plan , Austria , by 2017) and at the local level (e.g. Action Plan for Safe Cycle Traffic , Copenhagen, 2007–2012).
Federal Immission Control Act
According to Section 47 (2) of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG), an action plan consisted of measures that were intended to counteract forecast or already occurred exceedances of immission limit values or alarm thresholds. The values were specified , for example, in the ordinance on immission values for pollutants in the air (22nd BImSchV).
An action plan can, but does not have to be, issued as part of a clean air plan (Section 47 (1) BImSchG).
As part of the amendment to the Federal Immission Control Act, the term “action plan” in connection with air pollutants was abolished in favor of the term “plan for measures to be taken at short notice”.
In connection with noise protection , however, the term “noise action plan” was retained due to the European Environmental Noise Directive and made binding in 2005 and 2006 with Sections 47 a – f of the Federal Immission Control Act.
In terms of quality, there is also the fact that action plans can refer to trigger values, target values or alarm thresholds.