Coastal protection

Water Planning Act. It aims among others to mitigate the effects of floods.

Environmental Impact Assessment Decree. The decree covers "the construction, modification or extension of coastal works to combat erosion, of maritime works that can modify the coast through the construction of, among other things, dikes, piers, jetties and other coastal defense works, with the exception of the maintenance or repair of these works" (Part D on the activities, plans and decisions to which the procedure as referred to in Articles 7.16 to 7.20 of the Act) applies.

Executive Order on the Environmental Objectives etc. Act for International Nature Conservation Areas (Environmental Objectives Act).

Third Coastal Note: tradition, trends and future. Policy goals are included in the Nationaal Waterplan which became the Nationaal Waterprogramma with the adoption of the Omgevingswet.

Act on Investigation, Prevention and Remediation of Environmental Damage (Environmental Damage Act). This act aims to "ensure that the person responsible for an environmental damage or an imminent danger of an environmental damage prevents and remedies the damage or danger and bears all coasts for this". It applies pursuant to the envirwonmental protection act, the act on the protection fo the marine environment, the law on watercourses, the law on nature protection, the law on forests, the law on raw materials and the rules laid down in accordance with the coastal protection act.

Spatial Planning Act. It ensures that space is reserved for coastal flood protection.

Act amending the Coastal Protection Act, the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programs and Specific Projects Act (EIA), the Nature Conservation Act, the Hunting and Game Management Act and various other acts.

Wadden Sea Structural Vision. It includes the PKB Wadden Sea (Key National Planning Decision) regarding its binding aspects.

Executive Order on municipalities' purchases of land threatened by floods.

Environmental management activities scheme. It covers activities related to dikes and coastal flood defence.

Nature Conservation Act. " The law must contribute to protecting the country's nature and environment, so that societal development can take place on a sustainable basis in respect for human living conditions and for the conservation of animal and plant life" (§ 1). It partly covers coastal protection and coastal flood defence (dikes...) (especially § 15).

The Wadden Sea Plan 2010 relates to some extent to the danger of floods and measures to be taken in order to protect the land and its inhabitants (Points 7.1 and 7.2). It also aims the protection of the coastal environment.

The Climate Change Adaptation Strategy aims to preserve the environment in the Wadden Sea. This includes the evaluation of the effects of coastal risk management on natural dynamics. It anticipates sea level rise and develops a long-term approach including regarding coastal defence.