Farmers who have submitted a PAS report need not fear for the time being that the province of Drenthe will enforce. The Provincial Executive (GS) adopts the advice of the Legal Protection Committee and does not respond to the demand to maintain eight farms of the environmental organization Mobilization for the Environment (MOB).
He had objected to the non-enforcement of twenty companies that submitted a PAS notification in good faith for the expansion of their company under the old PAS legislation. GS has now ruled on eight companies. According to the MOB, the farmers were working without a nature law permit that they should have. Earlier, the province said that the farmers in question did nothing wrong. This has now been confirmed by the Legal Protection Committee.
According to the environmental organization, there are 150 farms in Drenthe without a nature permit. In May, MOB submitted fifty enforcement requests to the province for farms. According to environmental organization, those companies would have expanded in a ‘nitrogen overloaded situation’ without the required nature permit. It concerns 36 dairy farms, five farms, three livestock farms, two combined heat and power plants, a beef farm, a poultry farm, a manure fermentation plant and a fermentation plant. These companies are located in the vicinity of Dwingelderveld, Holtingerveld and Bargerveen, among others.