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On 18 April 2025 Minister Madlener of Infrastructure and Water Management submitted the ontwerp (draft) Partieel Herziene Programma Noordzee 2022-2027 to the Tweede Kamer. The draft proposed designating gebied 6/7 as a windenergiegebied (alongside extending Doordewind) to reserve indicatively 21 GW of additional offshore wind capacity in pursuit of the cabinet's 50 GW by 2040 ambition. The submission opened the public consultation phase that ran for six weeks from 13 May 2025 and was followed by the Commissie m.e.r. toetsingsadvies on 6 November 2025; the final instrument was formally adopted by cabinet on 20 March 2026 (Kamerstuk 35325, nr. 11).</description> </invoke> <invoke name="mcp__project-health__create_lifecycle_event"> <parameter name="project_name_or_id">69f4c7278465b19bc260281c</parameter> <parameter name="event_type">public_consultation</parameter> <parameter name="event_date">2025-05-13</parameter> <parameter name="date_precision">day</parameter> <parameter name="reported_as_occurred">true</parameter> <parameter name="source_url">https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-35325-11.html</parameter> <parameter name="source_date">2026-03-20</parameter> <parameter name="source_quote">vanaf 13 mei 2025 gedurende 6 weken ter inzage</parameter> <parameter name="description">A six-week public consultation (zienswijzeprocedure) on the ontwerp Partieel Herziene Programma Noordzee 2022-2027 — including its designation of windenergiegebied 6/7 — opened on 13 May 2025. The English and German translations of the ontwerp plus the relevant Plan-MER information were also sent to neighbouring states under the Espoo Convention to allow international zienswijzen. Submitted views were compiled into the Reactienota and, where relevant, fed into textual revisions of the final instrument. The zienswijzeprocedure ran in parallel with the request for advice from the Commissie voor de milieueffectrapportage that produced the toetsingsadvies of 6 November 2025.</parameter> </invoke> <invoke name="Write"> <parameter name="file_path">C:\Users\richa\Documents\programming\agentzero\scripts\audit\search_area_6_7_region_set.py