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Berlin / Emden (dpa / lni) - The fertilizer ordinance passed in March to the displeasure of many farmers could also concern the Federal Constitutional Court.
An agricultural enterprise from the East Frisian Timmel filed a constitutional complaint in Karlsruhe, as the interest groups “Free Farmers” and “Land Creates Connection” in East Frisia announced on Tuesday, which support plaintiff Jens Soeken financially and politically in his legal process.
With the complaint, the amended set of rules is fundamentally called into question for the first time.
With his constitutional complaint, Soeken does not want to attack the legitimate goal of groundwater protection.
He is concerned with the "many senseless management requirements" for the vast majority of farms that work in natural cycles and therefore cannot cause any damage to the groundwater, it said in a message.
"If the state tells me that I can no longer feed my plants with my own organic fertilizer as needed, then that's economically and ecologically wrong and it is also legally untenable," said the farmer.
After a long dispute, the Federal Council approved the new rules at the end of March - also in view of the threat of fines to the EU.
Among other things, the new specifications limit the times in which fertilization is allowed at all.
Greater distances from waterways are prescribed.
In particularly polluted areas, farms should fertilize a total of 20 percent less fertilizer on their land.
Soeken's lawyer believes that his mandate has violated the principle of equality in the Basic Law.
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LSV Ostfriesland to the complaint
Press release on the complaint
Video of the complaint
Explanation of the complaint