Environmental Assessment, Berlin's Guide for Urban and Landscape Planning

The environmental assessment in the urban development planning was introduced by adapting the Building Code to the EU Directive on strategic environmental assessment. As a general rule, it is carried out when urban development plans are being set up. It includes requirements both as to environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment as well as, to a large extent, also the regulation of intervention and the Natura 2000 Impact Assessment. It thus enables environmental impacts that could ensue from urban development planning to be identified in time and be managed at the respective level of planning.