This Decree, based on the provisions of the Environmental Management Act, the Spatial Planning Act, and the Environmental Law General Provisions Act, provides for defining environmental quality requirements for external safety related to the transport of hazardous substances, and concerns: transport route, hazardous substances, disasters, societal risk, zoning plan, granting of environmental permit. Matters covered by this Decree include: decisions relating to land in the vicinity of a transport route; adoption of a zoning plan related to land located within a basic network distance; group risk accountability; spatial substantiation of an environmental permit related to inland waterways.