Annual Report 2013

Hartmut Mehdorn and the

Hartmut Mehdorn and the mayors from the environs in the BER terminal. The Airport Company reached an agreement with the mayors of the surrounding communities for the realisation of the noise protection measures in accordance with the OVG decision in July 2013. Their common goal is to ensure that all of the residents living adjacent to the airport will be provided with the best possible noise protection construction measures. Noise Protection Programme BER Extensive Measures Have Been Initiated to Protect Residents Living Adjacent to the Airport. The Airport Company restructured the noise protection programme in the middle of 2013. This was a consequence of the decision handed down by the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Berlin-Brandenburg in April 2013 which determined that within the daytime protection area a noise level of 55 dB in closed rooms may be exceeded less than once on the 180 days of the year with the heaviest traffic volume. Its compliance with the decision means that the Airport Company conducts the most comprehensive noise protection programme of any Germany airport. To determine what measures are necessary for this compliance, reviews of the present situation and calculations are being carried out once again for several thousand applicants in the

Good Neighbour | 35 Noise insulation ventilators in an elementary school. The Airport Company employs various noise protection measures for facilities deserving special protection in the airport surroundings. These special facilities include child daycare centres, schools and senior citizen communities. “We want to realise the best possible noise protection for the residents living adjacent to the airport within the framework of decisions by the Higher Administrative Court and the Federal Administrative Court.” Hartmut Mehdorn, Airport Company CEO daytime protection area. The new protection standard is causing the costs for the realisation of the noise protection measures to rise in the majority of the cases. This is why the preparation of a fair value assessment with respect to noise protection may become necessary. The background is the cost cap set forth in the planning stipulation decision. It states that expenditures for noise protection measures up to a maximum of 30 % of the fair value of the property with rooms which must be protected will be reimbursed. If this limit is exceeded, the planning stipulation decision provides for financial compensation in the amount of this 30 %. Current estimates indicate that this is the case for about half of the properties. Following a tender procedure in all of Europe, Sprengnetter Immobilienbewertung was awarded a contract for the preparation of the assessments in December 2013.