The project aims to assist the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) in addressing legal questions in the area of climate protection, environmental, and energy law. This includes clarifying legal questions in the fields of energy, industry, transport, buildings, waste management, agriculture, land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF), as well as taking into account and addressing European legal issues, including state aid and constitutional law questions. This also includes potential connections to the EU Climate Social Fund.
The project also involves assessing proposals for climate protection legal norms and climate protection measures at both the European and national levels. The consistency of these proposals with the existing national and European legal framework, and particularly with the legally established goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, is to be analyzed.
In approximately a quarter of cases, a socio-economic or legal factual impact analysis is also required alongside resolving legal questions. In about 10% of cases, substantial legal, economic, and social preliminary questions are to be developed for a possible further development of climate protection legal norms or climate protection measures, as required for legal reasons or based on legal factual effects.
The project is intended to support the BMUKN in preparing relevant dossiers at the EU level and preliminary questions for their implementation at the national level, as well as the further development of the national legal framework. The goal is to prepare legal, factual, economic, and social preliminary questions and base them on empirical data and legal analyses to improve the foundations for an effective and sustainable climate protection policy.
LOT-0000
Z I 3 VSt. 1958/2026
Legal support for the implementation of the new EU climate target and development of climate protection law.
The project serves to support the BMUKN within the scope of its departmental responsibilities. Specifically, the following services are to be provided:
Work Package 1 (WP 1): Checks related to EU dossiers
WP 1.1: Preparation of legal opinions, background papers, and presentations (possibly including a demonstration as a video conference) to clarify preliminary questions of the relevant EU dossiers (15 papers of 10 DIN A4 pages; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 5 additional papers of 10 DIN A4 pages).
WP 1.2: Preparation of short opinions or ad-hoc assessments to evaluate regulatory and measure proposals, strategy papers, or other professional contributions for the further development of the European climate protection legal framework (short opinions and ad-hoc assessments: 30 papers of approximately 5 DIN A4 pages; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 10 additional papers of 5 DIN A4 pages).
Work Package 2 (WP 2): Checks related to the national implementation of European law and the general development of national law
WP 2.1: Preparation of legal and, if necessary, economic opinions, background papers, and presentations as well as regulatory options for the legal implementation of European requirements in national climate protection, energy, and specialist law and for the general development of the national climate protection relevant legal framework, including energy law and associated interactions with other specialist laws, such as emission control, circular economy, or planning law, as well as new climate protection legislative initiatives (23 opinions of 10 DIN A4 pages; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 7 additional papers of 10 DIN A4 pages).
WP 2.2: Preparation of short opinions or ad-hoc assessments to evaluate regulatory and measure proposals on the above topics (20 short opinions of approximately 5 DIN A4 pages; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 8 additional papers of 5 DIN A4 pages).
The contracting authority should be able to call off a number of services from the topics mentioned in WP 1 and WP 2 if necessary (optionally). Optional services will each be requested individually up to the maximum quantity by the contracting authority. Within each option, the contracting authority reserves the right to call off the described service only partially.
Following optional services will be available for the contracting authority in work packages 1-2 as needed:
Optional service: Work Package 3 (WP 3)
WP 3.1: Opinions
Up to 9 opinions of approximately 10 DIN A4 pages; to be prepared within 3 weeks after request by the contracting authority; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 3 additional papers of 10 DIN A4 pages, to be prepared within 3 weeks after request.
WP 3.2: Short opinions
Up to 15 short opinions of approximately 5 DIN A4 pages, to be prepared within 2 weeks after request by the contracting authority; in case of optional extension of the duration: up to 5 additional papers of 5 DIN A4 pages, to be prepared within 2 weeks after request.
WP 3.3: Workshops
5 one-day events, each lasting about 6 hours with around 20 participants, without travel costs; in case of optional extension of the duration: one additional one-day event lasting about 6 hours with approximately 20 participants, without travel costs. The workshops can bring together participants from various backgrounds. They serve to draw practical perspectives for the joint development of relevant research results.