Data privacy statement

Data processing is the responsibility of the

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Postal adress:
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 36 + 40, 53113 Bonn
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1–5, 65760 Eschborn

Contact:
Sekretariat@d-eiti.de

Contact details of the data protection officer:
datenschutzbeauftragter@giz.de

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a public-benefit federal enterprise for international cooperation. We work as a federal enterprise under private law. Our aim is to achieve the development-policy objective of improving the living conditions of people worldwide and conserving the natural resources on which livelihoods depend.

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The following information is stored for each page you view and each file you download:

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When signing up for our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed about aspects, which are relevant to the service or the registry (for example changes in the newsletter service or technical issues). For an effective registration we need a valid email address. To verify that the registration was actually realized by the owner of an email address, we use the “double opt-in” method. To this end, we record the subscription to the newsletter, the sending of the confirmation email and the reception of the hereby requested response. Further data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending newsletters and not shared with third parties. The consent to the storage of your personal data and their utilization for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time. In each newsletter you will find a corresponding link. You can also cancel the newsletter by using the contact form.

When signing up for our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed about aspects, which are relevant to the service or the registry (for example changes in the newsletter service or technical issues). For an effective registration we need a valid email address. To verify that the registration was actually realized by the owner of an email address, we use the “double opt-in” method. To this end, we record the subscription to the newsletter, the sending of the confirmation email and the reception of the hereby requested response. Further data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending newsletters and not shared with third parties. The consent to the storage of your personal data and their utilization for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time. In each newsletter you will find a corresponding link. You can also cancel the newsletter by using the contact form.

Contact forms

When you use the contact form, we process your name and email address. The data is processed based on Art. 6 paragraph 1 b) of the EU GDPR for the purpose of receiving the query formulated in the contact form. The data is not passed on to third parties. Data is transmitted to GIZ using an SSL-encrypted connection, which makes it significantly more difficult for unauthorised persons to intercept it. Similarly to queries sent to GIZ by email, queries transmitted using the contact form are deleted following 4 year retention period.

Duration of data retention

Personal data are regularly deleted when they are no longer needed for contractual purposes (e.g. for employment, top-ups, rental, sale or service contracts), the individuals concerned have not given any separate authorisation or statutory data storage obligations and periods have expired.

Reference to user rights

You are entitled to object to data processing, enquire about your personal data and its processing and to have this corrected if necessary, or to request restriction of processing or the erasure of the data.

If you have any questions or complaints about this website, please contact the GIZ data protection officer (see contact information provided above). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection supervisory authority. The responsible authority in this case is the

German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI).

Availability of the data privacy statement

You can access the data privacy statement at any time from any page of this website under the ‘Legal notice’ link. Please note that changes to the website, statutory and legal changes and any points not covered in the provisions which are identified later may require amendment of this data privacy statement.

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D-EITI Secretariat expressly reserves the right to modify, append and delete the website in part on in whole without prior notice, or to halt publication completely or for a limited period.

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Glossar

In Federal States in which legislation does not include an excavation law and the State-level Nature Conservation Law does not apply to the extraction of non-energetic, ground-based natural resources in the context of dry excavations, this type of natural resource extraction falls within the scope of the relevant state building regulations.

Legal limitations also exist: State building regulations apply to the excavation of solid rock (limestone, basalt, etc.), for example, in quarries with an area of up to 10 hectares (ha) in which no blasting is carried out. In the event that this area is exceeded, or if water bodies are formed after completion of the extraction operations, the German Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) and/or Water Resources Act (WHG) are applicable.
In Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia, the above-ground excavation of non-energetic, ground-based natural resources in the context of dry excavations is determined at state level by the existing excavation laws (AbgrG). For the excavation of solid rock (limestone, basalt, etc.) in quarries where blasting does not occur, the AbgrG applies to sites with an area of up to 10 ha. In the event that this area is exceeded, or if water bodies are formed after completion of the extraction operations, the German Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) and/or Water Resources Act (WHG) are applicable. In the other Federal States, this type of natural resources extraction is regulated by the respective state building regulations or by the state-level nature conservation laws.

In general, the AbgrG applies to those raw materials the excavation of which is not directly subject to mining law or the mining authorities. These raw materials include (in particular) gravel, sand, clay, loam, limestone, dolomite and other rocks, bog mud and clays. However, the jurisdiction between AbgrG and mining law can vary from case to case in the case of certain raw materials, such as quartz gravels. The requested authority must always verify its own jurisdiction in each case. The AbgrG also encompasses surface area usage and the subsequent rehabilitation of the area.
The German Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) is the most important and practice-relevant law in the field of environmental law. It constitutes the basis for the approval of industrial and commercial installations. In the natural resources extraction industry, quarrying companies must have approval to extract stones and earth. Every quarrying area of 10 hectares or more must undergo a full approval procedure, including public participation and UVP (environmental impact assessment). A more simplified approval procedure is used for quarrying areas of less than 10 hectares.

The sphere of responsibility for the legal immission control approval procedure is fully specified in the Immission Control Acts of the Federal States. The Federal States are tasked with the administrative enforcement of the approval procedure. Each individual state’s Environment Ministry – the highest local immission protection authority – usually bears the responsibility for this procedure. Subordinate authorities include regional councils, district authorities and lower-level administrative authorities. Administrative jurisdiction generally lies with the lower-level administrative authorities.
The GDP measures the value of goods and services produced domestically (creation of value) within a given period (quarter, year). The Federal Office of Statistics calculates the GDP as follows: production value minus intermediate consumption = the gross value added; plus taxes on products and minus subsidies = GDP
The gross value added is calculated by deducting intermediate consumption from the production values, so it only includes the value added created during the production process. The gross value added is valued at manufacturing prices, i.e. without the taxes due (product taxes), but including the product subsidies received.

During the transition from gross value added (at manufacturing prices) to GDP, the net taxes (product taxes less product subsidies) are added globally to arrive at an assessment of the GDP at market prices’. Source: Destatis
The planning approval procedure under mining law is used for the approval procedure of a general operating plan for projects which require an environmental impact assessment (§§ 52(2a), in conjunction with 57 a of the BBergG).
There are different definitions and methodological approaches at the international as well as at the national level as to what subsidies are and how they are calculated. According to the definition of the German government’s subsidy report, this report considers federal subsidies for private companies and economic sectors (ie grants as cash payments and tax breaks as special tax exemptions) which are relevant to the budget. Subsidies at the federal level can be viewed via the subsidy reports of the federal states (see Appendix 5 of the German government subsidy report).
In compliance with § 68(1), Water Resources Act (WHG), the excavation of landowners’ natural resources such as gravel, sand, marl, clay, loam, peat and stone in wet extraction operations requires a planning approval procedure. The reason for this is that groundwater is exposed in wet extraction, resulting in above-ground water. The planning approval procedure is implemented by lower-level water authorities.

The procedural steps of the planning approval procedure are governed by the general provisions of §§ 72 to 78 of the Administrative Procedures Act (VerwVfG). Within the meaning of § 68(3), nos. 1 and 2 of the WHG, the plan may only be established or approved if an impairment of the common good is not to be expected and other requirements of the WHG as well as other public-law provisions are fulfilled.