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If you have identified changes to a watercourse or watercourse section, you can submit the associated geodata and metadata to the NLWKN. Missing information can be obtained online from the Lower Saxony environmental map online. This display is free of charge.

Guardians and caregivers can get help from the Youth Welfare Office.

Patient Concerns offers all citizens of Lower Saxony the opportunity to raise concerns and complaints about healthcare in Lower Saxony.

Here you will find information on how to apply for admission to the preparatory service for a teaching profession in Lower Saxony.

The state of Lower Saxony intends to award a scholarship for children's and youth literature. It is intended to enable freelance authors to work for up to one year on a writing project in High German.

If you would like the monument properties of an object to be determined, you can apply for this at the State Office for Monument Protection.

Do you have an unfulfilled desire to have children? Couples can receive financial support for fertility treatment.

The certificate of innocuousness facilitates the unencumbered transfer of ownership of small estates and thus helps to clean up the public books and maps. The law on certificates of innocuousness does not apply to public encumbrances.

If you wish to construct and or operate part of a new facility, you must apply for a partial permit from the appropriate authority.

If you want to carry out fumigation, you need a permit, which you must apply for from the competent authority.

You can no longer pay the KiTa costs for your child? Check whether a reduction of the KiTa costs is possible for you.

If you would like to exchange agricultural or forestry parcels with one or more partners, you can submit an application to the responsible Office for Regional Regional Development for the implementation of a voluntary land exchange in accordance with the Land Consolidation Act.

Accompanying assistance is used to support people with severe disabilities in their working lives.

The state of Lower Saxony intends to award an annual scholarship in the field of literature in 2024. It is intended to provide freelance authors with the financial means to increase their artistic activities over a period of up to one year.

If you have been insured for a particularly long time, you can retire without deductions before reaching the standard retirement age under certain conditions.

Are you applying for a permit for installations under the simplified procedure? Then you can obtain a permit from the competent authority for the construction and operation of installations of a certain type or size without public participation.

You have applied for a permit for a plant requiring a permit? Then you can also apply to start construction of the plant ahead of schedule.

If your existence is at risk as a result of a loss of earnings in accordance with Section 56 (1) or (1a) IfSG, you can be reimbursed for additional expenses to a certain extent upon application.

You can receive compensation if you have a loss of earnings as a result of officially ordered quarantine or prohibition of activity and closure of care facilities.

If you already receive housing benefit, you can apply for continued benefit under certain conditions.

Does your child have problems in everyday life or in their development? As a parent, do you need support in raising your child? Then raising your child in a day group may be a possible solution.

Adolescents and young adults in difficult life situations can receive help to become more independent and to cope better in society.

If you make use of special official acts by the customs administration, you may have to pay fees and expenses.

If you have been insured for many years, you can retire with deductions before reaching the standard retirement age under certain conditions.

Parents, as a rule, take care of the upbringing and care of a child. However, it may also be necessary for the state to help with education.

For cultural assets worthy of protection, you can apply to the competent certifying authority for a certificate for the tax office on production and conservation measures and their costs.

If you require a certificate of competence for fumigation activities, you can apply for this from the competent authority.

If you would like to conduct guided tours on tidal flats in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea, you will need a permit.

Does your child have problems in everyday life or in his or her development? As a parent, you can't help your child on your own? Then a guardian can support your child.

If you want to hold an aviation event, you must first apply for a permit from the relevant aviation authority.

If you apply for a preliminary decision on a plant requiring a permit, the competent authority may grant this under certain conditions.

If you cannot ensure that your child is doing well in your home, then your child can live temporarily or for a longer period of time in an inpatient facility (home education) or an assisted living facility.

If you intend to make significant changes to an installation that requires a permit, you must apply for a permit from the responsible authority.

If you intend to make changes (repowering) to an installation that requires approval and generates electricity from renewable energy sources, you can apply to the competent authority for an easing of the approval procedure.

If you cannot ensure that your child is doing well in your home, then your child may be in foster care temporarily or permanently.

Are you no longer allowed to work due to infection control and have a loss of earnings as a result? Find out here how you will be reimbursed for the loss of earnings.

Have you obtained an engineering degree abroad and gained work experience? If you would like to practise your profession in Germany, you can apply for entry in the list of consulting engineers.

If you want to offer a course for the expert use of biocidal products, you must have the course recognised by the competent authority in advance.

If you have acquired your teaching qualification in the GDR and would like to be employed in the preparatory service or school service for the corresponding teaching profession, an examination of the equivalence of your qualification obtained in the GDR is required.

Do you as a family or as a single parent need support to cope with your everyday family life? Then socio-pedagogical family assistance is an option for you. Socio-pedagogical family assistance is a form of educational assistance provided by the Youth Welfare Office.

Do you want to adopt a child from abroad?

The building permit is granted in writing if the construction project does not conflict with any public law regulations. Under certain circumstances, an exemption from the...

For some construction measures, a simplified building permit procedure must be carried out in accordance with § 63 of the Lower Saxony Building Code (NBauO), for special building...

Recognition as a guardianship association is a prerequisite for receiving a state grant for guardianship associations.

If you have installed or operate a system and this system requires approval for the first time due to a change in the law, you must notify the responsible authority in good time.

Legal representation must be ensured for each minor. This representation can take place within the framework of a guardianship or guardianship if the parents are unable or unwilling to perform this task.

If the period of validity of your permit for guided tours on tidal flats in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea ends and you would like to conduct guided tours on the tidal flats in the future, you will need to renew your permit.

If you are an authorized mudflat guide and wish to conduct mudflat tours on additional areas or routes, you will need an extension to your existing permit.

A construction project can have an impact on the neighbouring properties of the building plot. For this reason, the building code contains numerous regulations that serve to...

In appropriate cases, foster parents may be given guardianship of the child you are caring for.

You can have the guardianship order publicly certified.

You can apply for information for the registration certificate II (leasing certificate information).

If your divorce certificate has been lost, you can have a certified copy issued to you by the competent district court – family court.

For listed buildings and buildings within monument areas or protected complexes, you can apply for a certificate of measures taken for the preservation or sensible use of the monument or building and their costs.

Do you intend to make changes to an installation requiring a permit that are relevant to an incident? Then you may need to apply for a permit from the responsible authority beforehand.

You would like to work as an orthoptist in Germany? Then you need a state permit. To obtain the state permit, you can have your foreign professional qualification recognised.

If you have become aware that a civil court decision (judgment or order) has been issued which you wish to inspect, you can request an anonymised copy of this decision.

Some children and adolescents have difficulties in their personal development. It is difficult for them to approach other children or young people, to get involved in groups or to cope with their problems independently.

If you require a multilingual extract from the civil status register, you can apply for this at the relevant registry office. Extracts are issued, for example, from birth, marriage and civil registers.

The Youth Employment Protection Act generally prohibits the employment of children. An exception is the participation of children in special events such as theatre performances, music performances, etc. Employers can apply for this exemption at the Labour Inspectorate.

You have the option of reserving a license plate for your vehicle online without obligation.

As a resident, you have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed and other matters of the municipality in public meetings of the municipal council.

If you wish to carry out a fumigation activity, you must notify the competent authority.

As the operator of a waste incineration plant or a combustion plant in which you co-incinerate waste, you must continuously determine, record and evaluate pollutant emissions through continuous measurements.

As an operator of a medium-sized combustion plant, gas turbine or combustion engine plant, you must determine the pollutant emissions under certain conditions by means of continuous measurements and create a measurement report on the results.

You can view summaries of risk management plans on the portal for drug information of the federal and state governments as a supplement to specialist and package leaflets.