Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ If, in pro­jects such as those in­volving build­ings and in­stall­a­tions, an act provides for the con­cen­tra­tion of de­cision-mak­ing in a single au­thor­ity (the prin­cip­al au­thor­ity), this au­thor­ity hears the state­ments of the spe­cial­ist au­thor­it­ies con­cerned be­fore mak­ing a de­cision.

² If sev­er­al spe­cial­ist au­thor­it­ies are con­cerned, the prin­cip­al au­thor­ity listens to their state­ments at the same time; it may however hear them one after the oth­er if there are par­tic­u­lar reas­ons for do­ing so.

³ The prin­cip­al au­thor­ity sets the spe­cial­ist au­thor­it­ies a dead­line for provid­ing a state­ment; the dead­line is nor­mally two months.

⁴ The prin­cip­al au­thor­ity and the spe­cial­ist au­thor­it­ies shall agree am­ic­ably on the cases in which ex­cep­tion­ally no state­ment needs to be provided.