State Water Act

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The state water laws are laws of the federal states in Germany which concern water bodies (protection, use, water supply, disposal, water body division) and supplement and specify the federal water law regulations.

history

Until the Water Resources Act (WHG) came into force on August 1, 1957, there was no uniform water law in Germany. Some of the German states began to enact their own laws regulating water law as early as the 19th century. These remained valid until the Water Resources Act in the Federal Republic of 1957 and the Water Act of the GDR in 1963 came into force . On the basis of the WHG as a framework law , the states of the Federal Republic passed their state water laws, which are still valid today, between 1960 and 1962; the federal states that were added after the unification of Germany did the same until 1994.

In the version that has been in force since March 1, 2010, the Federal Water Management Act represents a full regulation. Within the framework of the competing legislation in accordance with Art. 72 Para. 3 No. 5 Basic Law, the federal state water laws can only partially stipulate deviations and opening clauses of the WHG use. Before that, the WHG was a framework law that was filled out in more detail by the state water laws.

The conversion of the WHG to a full regulation resulted in a revision and new version of the state water laws from 2010. In some federal states, e.g. B. Thuringia is still outstanding today (as of October 2018).

Historical state water laws (selection)

State water laws of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction to water management law in: Handbuch des Deutschen Wasserrechts, Erich Schmidt-Verlag, 2005