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On 6 November 2025 the Commissie voor de milieueffectrapportage (Commissie m.e.r.) published its final toetsingsadvies on the Plan-MER for the Partiele Herziening Programma Noordzee 2022-2027 (project 3806). The commission concluded that all important environmental information was in scope. The earlier voorlopig toetsingsadvies of 22 July 2025 had asked for supplementary information on sand-mining impacts and shipping safety; the Rijk produced an aanvulling on both topics. The final advice highlighted larger-than-previously-presented sand-mining effects on the ecosystem and called for these to be taken into account in subsequent decision-making. Together with the zienswijzen, this advice fed into the Reactienota and the cabinet-adopted Partieel Herziene Programma Noordzee on 20 March 2026.</description> </invoke> <invoke name="Write"> <parameter name="file_path">C:\Users\richa\Documents\programming\agentzero\scripts\audit\search_area_6_7_region_set.py