Coastal protection

Executive Order on environmental assessment of plans and programs and of specific projects. Specific precautions may apply in case the project is located within the coastal zone.

Natura 2000 Wadden Sea Management Plan (2016-2022). It aims the protection of marine and coastal habitats. It covers flooding.

Primary flood defense regulations 2017. It contains rules "for determining the hydraulic load and the strength and procedural rules for assessing the safety of primary flood defences".

The Delta Programme 2019 aimed to continue the work on the detla: adapting the Netherlands to climate change in time. The Delta Programme 2020 aims to continue to work on the delta: sober, alert and prepared. It includes the Delta Plan on Flood Risk Management and the Delta Decision on Flood Risk Management.

Regulation designating categories of sustainable energy production and climate transition 2020. This Act applies to some extent to flood defence works.

Water control regulation. This regulation contains rules regarding the management and use of water systems. It applies to a certain extent to flood defence works.

National Environmental Vision: Sustainable perspective for our living environment. It covers topics like coastal flood defence and coastal protection.

Building Code. According to the code, munipalities must define a land-use plan which takes "the interests of coastal or flood protection and flood prevention, in particular the avoidance and reduction of flood damage" (§ 1.6.12).

Federal Waterways Act. Like the Water Management to which it refers, this Act aims coastal flood defence.

Law on the joint task "Improvement of the agricultural structure and coastal protection".

Spatial Planning Ordinance. It applies to dykes and dams.

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.