Hamburg Law to Implement and Supplement the Federal Soil Protection Act.

The Law provides for preventing soil harmful changes and verifies persons who are in charge to inform competent authorities and their agents to take appropriate actions and gather required information. The Law provides for usage of soil and control of property, soil information and investigation systems, liabilities in case of harmful soil changes, pollutions, disadvantages and nuisance, access to property and facilities for implementation of this Law. The Law determines liability of the competent authority to ensure implementation of the Federal Soil Protection Act, this Law and the violations on the basis of relevant regulations. The Competent authority maintains soil information system that contain data about impairment of soil functions, soil changes, suspected ares, substance entries, planned usage and the right to transfer data and information to another authority. The Law further provides for compensation obligation in case damage occurs. The Law consists of 15 Articles and five parts as follow: General provision (1); Soil information system and data processing (2); Area based soil protection (3); Compensation, costs (4); Final provision (5).