Freiburg / Fessenheim (Dpa) – Almost a year and a half after its founding, the Franco-German company for the use of the area around the decommissioned Fessenheim nuclear power plant will be dissolved. The legal form and composition of the Novarhéna company had proved unsuitable, a spokesman for the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district office of the German News Agency in Freiburg said Thursday. Due to environmental protection regulations, the area covers only 55 hectares. German shareholders are on board with a total of 14.5% of the company, organized under French law.
In April last year, 17 German and French partners came together to promote economic development in the region following the closure of the Alsatian nuclear power plant. The Fessenheim plant was closed in the summer of 2020 after 42 years of operation.
The joint development of a project for the subsequent use of the area around the Fessenheim nuclear power plant is one of the priorities agreed by Berlin and Paris to implement the Aachen Treaty for Franco-German cooperation. The new contract was signed in January 2019 by French President Emmanuel Marcon and then Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
A precise date for Novarhéna’s dissolution has not yet been set, the district office spokesman said. The eastern French newspaper “Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace” had named the month of October.
The Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district brought 20,000 euros to Novarhéna, after its liquidation a loss of around 10,000 euros is possible, the spokesman said. Details have not yet been determined. There are other cross-border cooperation projects for the development of the region.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 220922-99-862559 / 3
–
