For the protection of biodiversity, the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) pursues the goal of establishing compensation areas to balance unavoidable indirect effects on nature and the environment caused by the application of plant protection products. Whether there is a legal basis for this within either European Union or national law is one of the most debated and pressing issues currently in the authorisation procedure for plant protection products in Germany. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive legal assessment of whether it is legally permissible to make plant protection product authorisations contingent to compensatory application provisions to protect biodiversity.

为了保护生物多样性，德国联邦环境署 (UBA) 追求建立补偿区的目标，以平衡植物保护产品的应用对自然和环境造成的不可避免的间接影响。在欧盟或国家法律中是否有这方面的法律依据是目前德国植物保护产品授权程序中最具争议和最紧迫的问题之一。这篇文章的目的是提供一个全面的法律评估，以确定在法律上是否允许植物保护产品授权取决于补偿性应用条款以保护生物多样性。