This final project for the surveyor education at Aalborg University deals with the governmental authorities’ influence on the digital planning process. This type of influence is exemplified in the project through an analysis of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs’ influence on the local planning. In that context a preliminary analysis is conducted, which purpose is to explain and define the problem. The preliminary analysis explains how the planning system in Denmark works and which governmental authorities have the possibility to influence the planning process as well as how they do so. Therefore it is interesting to focus on the governmental authorities’ influence on the local planning and the veto they have on the plans according to the planning act § 29, no. 3. Furthermore through the preliminary analysis it has been explained how the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs is organized, therefore it is possible to define which agency under the Ministry handles the opposition and veto against a local plan. On the basis of the knowledge of the planning system, the veto and the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the project’s problem statement has been defined. The problem statement seeks to clarify the extent of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs’ veto against local plans in 2010 and 2011. To answer the problem statement an empirical analysis of the local plans, which either have been adopted, presented as a local plan proposal or rejected in 2010 and 2011, is conducted. The analysis has been made on the basis of data from PlansystemDK and therefore the project also contains a review of PlansystemDK’s function and structure in the Danish planning system with focus on the registry’s function in the digital governmental management system. Besides this the main analysis contains a review of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs’ interests in the local planning, which are the interests that the Ministry is to protect. It is within these interests that the Ministry can make an objection against a local plan. The empirical analysis is furthermore divided in three phase: The first phase is a GIS‐analysis, which purpose is to point out the local plans that contain conditions that might affect the Ministry’s interests. Phase two is a manual review of the local plans that have been pointed out through the GIS‐analysis. The review focuses at determining whether there has been an objection against the plan by the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs or not. The third phase is a review of the local plans where the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs has made an objection with focus at determining whether the objection contains a veto according to the planning act § 29, no. 3. The analysis shows, that 255 local plans containing possible interests of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, have been made in 2010 and 2011. Out of the 255 local plans the Ministry has made an objection against 28 local plans and 18 of these are objections with a veto. Three of these objections needed a decision from the Minister for the Environment to be resolved. Furthermore, from these it is concluded that the interests of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs are protected. It also shows that in the transformation from analog to digital planning the protections of the church’s interests are preserved. Therefore it is concluded that the planning system works. The method in the project can be used to point out local plans with interests to other ministries.