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The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has rejected objections by environmentalists against a building permit for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline.
As the BSH announced, after evaluating the concerns and re-examining it, it came to the conclusion that the January approval was legal.
At that time, the authority allowed Nord Stream 2 to continue construction in German waters.
Due to the contradictions, however, the approval had expired.
The BSH justified the rejection of the contradictions, among other things, with the fact that the remaining construction section only runs on the edge of a bird sanctuary, with little significance for certain species of roosting birds.
In addition, the pipeline partially runs through an area in which there is already intensive shipping traffic.
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By going to the Hamburg Administrative Court, the associations could now revoke the approval again.
Without the approval, the project company will only be able to lay pipes in German waters with the ships currently available to it from the end of May.
Deutsche Umwelthilfe announced on Thursday that it would file a lawsuit.
Nord Stream 2 is currently still laying in Danish waters.
According to the project company, the pipeline is more than 90 percent complete.
According to this, around 110 kilometers in Danish and 28 kilometers in German waters are still missing, distributed over two strands.
In the future, the pipeline is to transport 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia to Germany.