Nationally, Germany has exposure limits based on a predecssor of the current ICNIRP guidelines. They are defined by the 26th Ordinance Implementing the Federal Immission Control Act, 16 December 1996. The basic limits are 5 kV/m and 100 μT, with these values doubled for brief excedances totalling less than 5% of the day.
There is an additional provision in the Energy Line Extension Act 2009:
"In order to test the use of buried cables at extra-high voltage level in the transmission grid as a pilot scheme, the following lines named in the annex to this Act may be installed and operated as buried cable or modified in accordance with Paragraph 2:
1. Ganderkesee – St. Hülfe section of the Ganderkesee – Wehrendorf line,
2. Diele – Lower Rhine line,
3. Wahle – Mecklar line,
4. Altenfeld – Redwitz section of the Lauchstädt – Redwitz line."
The following sections specify that these lines may be placed underground within 400 m of a residential area or within 200 m of individual properties where technically and economically efficient. It does not appear to be specifically about EMFs.
see also the source documents
There was previously a law in Lower Saxony making provision for undergrounding of power lines there, and which did mention EMFs. We understand that this is superseded by this new National law and no longer applies.
