Apply for a land-filling and excavation permit

If the project is situated within a Natura 2000 site, a Natura 2000 preliminary assessment may be required, depending on the scale of the proposed project. Even if you do not require a permit – for example, in the case of only minor earthworks – there are various points to bear in mind: Prohibited areas Earthworks or excavations are generally not permitted on the following areas, even for projects exempt from planning permission procedures: Nature reserves, landscape conservation areas, and areas designated as natural monuments Areas within nature parks Specially protected biotopes Natura 2000 sites: A preliminary FFH impact assessment is required to determine permissibility Floodplains Riparian buffer zones extending 10 metres from the top of the embankment Water protection areas Soils which, according to soil assessment, have a soil or grassland base value of less than 24 or greater than 60 Areas with historical landscape documents, for example sinkholes, cultural monuments Areas with occurrences of specially protected plant and animal species Areas with valuable arable weed flora (Red List species) Forest Soils that fulfil natural soil functions and serve as an archive of natural and cultural history to a particular degree In individual cases, a permit, exemption or authorisation may be granted, for example under nature conservation, soil, waste or water legislation. Land filling on agricultural land When applying soil material to agricultural