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That plan is the Programma Noordzee 2022-2027, the Dutch government's national spatial plan for the North Sea 1. It sets out how the available sea space is shared between nature protection, sustainable food supply (fisheries), the energy transition, shipping, sand extraction, cables and pipelines, digital connectivity, national security, underwater cultural heritage, recreation and meteorological services 1. The spatial-claims part of the plan also functions as a structuurvisie under spatial planning law, so individual permits such as a kavelbesluit or a Mijnbouwwet permit must fit within it instead of being decided case by case 1. It designates the wind energy areas from which later tenders and kavelbesluiten draw plots, including Nederwiek, Lagelander and Doordewind, with a structuurvisiekaart published in 2023 and kept current as the programme is revised 2.
Not in the sources: The passages do not describe how conflicts between the different uses are resolved in practice or how the plan is revised.
Cited passages
Passage 1: What the programme covers
Programma Noordzee 2022-2027 is the Dutch government's national spatial plan for the North Sea: it sets out how the available sea space is shared between nature protection, sustainable food supply (fisheries), the energy transition, shipping, sand extraction, cables and pipelines, digital connectivity, national security, underwater cultural heritage, recreation and meteorological services. Legally, the part of the plan dealing with spatial claims doubles as a structuurvisie (structure vision) under spatial planning law, which is why individual permits (a kavelbesluit, a Mijnbouwwet permit) must fit within it rather than being decided case by case.
Programma Noordzee 2022-2027: the spatial plan behind every North Sea permitNoordzeeloket / Rijksoverheid · noordzeeloket.nl · retrieved 18 Sep 2026
Passage 2: Wind energy areas it designates
The 2022-2027 programme designates the wind energy areas that later tenders and kavelbesluiten draw plots from, including Nederwiek, Lagelander and Doordewind — the areas behind the Nederwiek I-A and Doordewind tenders described elsewhere in this corpus. A structuurvisiekaart (structure-vision map) visualising these designations was published in 2023 and is kept current as the programme is revised.
Programma Noordzee 2022-2027: the spatial plan behind every North Sea permitNoordzeeloket / Rijksoverheid · noordzeeloket.nl · retrieved 18 Sep 2026
Sources consulted
- Programma Noordzee 2022-2027: the spatial plan behind every North Sea permitNoordzeeloket / Rijksoverheid · noordzeeloket.nl · retrieved 18 Sep 2026 · cited
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