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Hanover (dpa / lni) - After Environment Minister Olaf Lies (SPD), Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) has also heavily criticized the federal government's planned insect protection law.
The draft by Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) virtually counteracts everything that the state government has initiated with the so-called Lower Saxony Way for more biodiversity, said Althusmann on Monday in Hanover.
Instead of giving farmers incentives for more species protection, as in the case of the Lower Saxony regulation, the federal draft law relies on regulations.
This jeopardizes the trust of the farmers found with the Lower Saxony Way as well as the agreed cooperation.
The draft law must be rejected at the federal level.
"I think a conflict is brewing here."
Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) recently insisted on practically implementable solutions for further environmental and animal protection requirements for agriculture.
The Lower Saxony Way, adopted by the state parliament in November, includes a balance between environmental and agricultural interests.
A package of measures is intended, among other things, to improve water protection, and new requirements for the protection of birds and grassland and the use of pesticides are planned.
Farmers should receive compensation for nature conservation measures.
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Environment Minister Olaf Lies (SPD) criticized the Berlin draft law in the state parliament last week.
"I think a draft law that questions what we have decided together in Parliament, that calls into question that a farmer is paid for his work, that cannot exist with us," Lies said.
"We want rather the opposite, the Lower Saxony way of the common, which must find expression in Berlin."
The solution in Lower Saxony must be the path chosen to balance ecology, agriculture and the economy throughout Germany.
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Environment Minister Olaf Lies in the state parliament on the Lower Saxony Way and the Insect Protection Act