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December 10, 2025
Today the EU Commission presented a regulation to reduce bureaucracy in the environmental sector using the so-called omnibus procedure. By reducing administrative costs, costs of around one billion euros per year should be saved. The EU Nature Restoration Regulation is not included.
The dismantling of bureaucratic regulations in the environmental sector is fundamentally to be welcomed, emphasizes Bavarias European Minister Eric Beisswenger, but: Unfortunately, the EU Commission has missed the opportunity with the environmental omnibus to adapt the regulations on the restoration of nature. This has negative effects on the creation of living space, on food security and the reliability of European rules. The negative effects on Germany and Bavaria will be immense. We welcome the fact that the Commission is continuing to work on its simplification agenda. However, we should We would like to see significantly more ambition in the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, not just vague announcements of support, but tangible improvements.
The regulation will have a negative impact on the construction sector, which urgently needs new impetus. Areas that are needed for housing construction could be withdrawn from appropriate use. This means that the housing shortage will increase both in rural areas and in metropolitan areas and that building land prices will continue to rise, in some cases by millions. This calls into question a central political promise of the current Commission, the creation of affordable housing in Europe. Bavarias Construction Minister Christian Bernreiter: As the construction minister of the states, we have advocated for renegotiations and an exception for buildings or the urgently needed new construction, since under the regulation compensation for green spaces and tree canopies is only possible within urban ecosystems. Our municipalities are already doing exemplary work in environmental and climate protection, for example by upgrading the quality of non-urban areas such as moors and forests. We therefore do not need new EU regulations, but urgent legal certainty.
From the perspective of agriculture and forestry, the Restoration Ordinance in its current form is unsustainable. Bavaria has therefore repeatedly asked the EU Commission to fundamentally revise the proposal so that nature conservation, climate adaptation and economic prospects go together. A regulation that ignores natural dynamics and overwhelms our companies cannot be the way forward. Bavarias Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber: Of course we need strong and living nature - but this draft is too rigid and does not fit with what climate change demands today. It ignores the dynamic development of our forests and cultivated landscapes and at the same time ignores the reality of the companies. Instead of practical solutions, it brings additional bureaucracy and the financing remains unclear. That is exactly what we have criticized again and again. We need clear improvements - otherwise the regulation must be taken off the table.
Even in areas that are certified to be in a favorable condition in all criteria in the national FFH report, the regulation requires the implementation of restoration measures, which calls into question the reliability of European regulations. Bavarias Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber particularly criticizes the completely unclear financing: The restoration regulation is another bureaucratic monster of the EU and is unacceptable in this form. The Bavarian cooperative approach to nature conservation is the right one. The EU must not question this principle. In this form, the regulation will divide property owners and nature conservation instead of uniting their goals. We have always called on the federal government to advocate for a fundamental revision of the regulation at EU level. It is irresponsible if the states with this Regulation and financing should be left alone.
Bavaria has pushed for simplifications in EU regulations in Brussels. A practical check on reducing bureaucracy in Augsburg only took place on September 12, 2025. At Bavarias instigation, the topic was discussed in the specialist ministerial conferences. In its environmental omnibus, the EU Commission only speaks of support in the development of national recovery plans.
Given the significant practical problems, it is necessary to suspend the application of the regulation, said Beisswenger, in order to create time for a fundamental revision.
