Implementation Act for the Environment and Planning Act

The Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet) is a framework law that includes everything that is part of the “physical environment” (“leefomgeving”), and has come into force on January 1, 2024. The purpose of the Environment and Planning Act is to create a more coherent regulatory landscape for the physical environment by modernising, harmonising and combining laws into one single Act.

Overall, it (partially) repeals 26 laws and combines them into one single Act, including the Crisis & Recovery Act, the Environmental Management Act, and parts of the Water Act. Moreover, the Act reduces the previous 60 Orders in Council to 4 Orders in Council, and narrows down 75 ministerial regulations to one ‘Environment Regulation’. 

Environment and Planning Act of the Netherlands (Omgevingswet)

Laws and Policies

CCLW

CCLW national policies

Implementation Decree of the Environment and Planning Act

Implementation Act published in the Bulletin of Acts, Orders, and Decrees

Implementation Decree published in the Bulletin of Acts, Orders, and Decrees

The implementation of the framework law, combining and repealing 26 existing laws into one single Act concerned with the "physical environment" leads to big legislative changes. In order to allow the succesful transition to the <span style="color: rgb(26,32,44);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);font-size: medium;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol;">Environment and Planning Act, the Implementation Act and Implementation Decree are created.

Implementation Act of the Environment and Planning Act

The implementation of the framework law, combining and repealing 26 existing laws into one single Act concerned with the "physical environment" leads to big legislative changes. In order to allow the succesful transition to the <span style="color: rgb(26,32,44);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);font-size: medium;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol;">Environment and Planning Act, the Implementation Act and Implementation Decree are created.