Tree school industry frightens over new regulation in the federal nature protection law

06.22.09

Gebietliche differentiation of domestic wood after regional origins now legally for cultivation in free nature prescribed.
After more than three years fight against the differentiation of wood after their regional origin, domestic demanded of nature protection federations, in Germany, had to grant BdB president Karl-Heinz Plum after the decision of the Bundestag on Friday, 19 June, over a again-calm federal nature protection law that this fight at the end without success remained, although itself the Upper House of Parliament in its meeting to 15. May expressly in the sense of the nursery gardens had expressed. Regardless of its Plum thanked all Member of the Bundestag, who had supported the BdB, among them in particular the delegate Dr. Ole Schröder, Pinneberg, and Cajus J. Caesar, Kreis lip, which on used themselves with outstanding commitment of beginning of the amendment procedure up to the conclusion for the position of the tree school economy.
After again in that federalnature protection-set taken up regulation, § 40, & it becomes fictitious that domestic wood in one determined itself „ \ " Region of Germany genetically differentiate from wood the same kind in another region of Germany, without there is for it a proof or a check procedure suitable for it. Besides the law does not prescribe, in which way these regional areas are to be defined from each other, i.e. these are to have which expansion in each case.
„ in this form the law is not convertible, we assumes that it does not correspond to the constitutional state requirement of the art. 20 paragraph 3 Basic Law because of its uncertainty \ " , president said Plum in a first statement. One will examine, how one will deal with this regulation.
Nevertheless with approximately 200000 Varietäten by wood at the market the business risk by a further gebietliche differentiation one multiply clearly. Not to invent is the economic consequence, if the European customer states existenziell important for the German tree school economy should decide to similar regulations. Then these foreign markets for the German tree school economy would break down. „ we cannot reconstruct, why our main argument was taken up not also by the Bundestag, which consisted of making only then and to that extent a differentiation within a kind of wood as far as there is a scientific proof for heterogeneity one, to which also its precipitation in the scientific designation found, \ " Plum said. Without clear identification of the wood which can be differentiated the production or the trade of wood is not conceivable, it is, one prescribes this in the detailed way, how it took place in the forest forest property lawforest property law.
Source: Federation of German nursery gardens (BdB) registered association.