Denmark has three levels of government: the national government, 5 regional governments and 98 local governments. On the national level, the Ministry for Business and Growth prepares a national planning report after each parliamentary election. The report presents the government’s long-term considerations on the spatial development in Denmark and provides overall guidelines for spatial planning in Denmark. Furthermore, the ministry is responsible for safeguarding national interests in physical planning and releases a report on National Interests in Municipal Planning (every four years). The ministry also provides a national planning directive for overall planning in the greater Copenhagen metropolitan area. More generally, it has the power to issue national planning directives related to areas that are of importance for the broader society, such as infrastructure construction. Lastly, the ministry can establish special rules for the planning of certain activities, such as the construction of wind turbines.