This draft contains, among other things, provisions (relating to location, procedural rules and approval conditions) in connection with the construction of commercial enterprises.

It also contains the authorisation to enact development programmes and the provincial spatial plan, which include objectives in physiographic, economic, social and cultural terms, together with associated measures to achieve these objectives. Such development programmes and the provincial spatial plan may also have effects on certain uses and subsequently on construction and building activities as well.

Act of …………………………………… on spatial planning in Burgenland 2019 (Burgenland Spatial Planning Act 2019 [Burgenländisches Raumplanungsgesetz 2019 - Bgld. RPG 2019])

This draft contains provisions (objectives, principles, procedural rules, etc.) concerning supra-local and local spatial planning in Burgenland.

In connection with Directive 2015/1535/EU, the following provisions in particular should be highlighted:

- provisions on the construction of shopping centres (procedural rules, approval conditions, the municipality’s obligation to deal with locations for shopping centres in the context of local spatial planning)

- provisions on permissible locations for commercial enterprises for local supply

- provisions for enacting development programs and the provincial spatial plan (definition of objectives and associated measures in physiographic, economic, social and cultural terms).