What are PAS detectors?
Until three years ago, entrepreneurs with little nitrogen precipitation on protected Natura 2000 areas did not need a permit to expand, for example. According to the Dutch nitrogen policy, the Nitrogen Approach Program (PAS), a notification was sufficient for them. That changed when the Council of State canceled the PAS on 29 May 2019. The highest administrative court found that all companies must have a permit for nitrogen precipitation in vulnerable nature areas. The decision of the Council of State made the 3,637 companies that made such a PAS report illegal in one fell swoop.
