Federal government only fills just under 40% of the announced jobs in coal mining areas

Competence centers and authorities

A federal-state coordination committee decided on various new institutions, mostly branch offices of existing authorities or research institutes. These include, for example, a branch office of the Federal Office for Water Management and Export Control in Weißwasser and a central location of the Federal Network Agency in Cottbus.

The list also includes a national monitoring center for biodiversity of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, the establishment of a competence center for climate protection in energy-intensive industries, a competence center for regional development, a competence center for municipal heat transition and much more. Most of the institutions are located in the coal-mining regions of eastern Germany, some also in the Rhineland coalfields.