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Building products

• Building Products: Determining and avoiding pollutants and odours - Results from a research project
• Environmental and Health Provisions for Building Products - Identification and evaluation of VOC emissions and odour exposure
• European leaching test for construction products (Subproject in context with a European community project)
• Harmonization of test methods for the execution of the EG Construction Products Directive. Validation of a European leaching test for construction products (Subproject in context with a European community project)
• HFC-containing Propellants in Canned PU Foam (OCF); Estimation of the reduction potential of emissions from OCF with regard to a clarification of the provisions given in §9(1) of Regulation (EC) 842/2006; Climate Change 11/2009
• How to judge release of dangerous substances from construction products to soil and groundwater PDF / 2,46 MB
• Implementation of Health and Environmental Criteria in Technical Specifications for Construction Products
• Rare Metals - Measures and concepts for the solution of the problem of conflict-aggravating raw material extraction - the example of coltan
• Safe Construction Products for Health and the Environment: How much testing is necessary to implement the EC Construction Products Directive?
• Sensory-based evaluation of building product emissions Integration into the Blue Angel award criteria and assessment scheme of the Committee for Health Evaluation of Building Products

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CFCs and halons

• 20th anniversary of Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (in German, PDF / 135 KB
• Consolidated Text of Regulation (EC) No. 2037/2000 PDF / 134 KB

Eco-design

• Product-related top runner approach at EU level
  • concept paper PDF / 127 KB
  • report in German

Flame retardants in products

• Background paper (April 2008): Brominated flame retardants - guardian angels with a bad streak? PDF / 186 KB
• Emission of Flame Retardants from Consumer Products and Building Materials, April 2003
• Residues of flame retardants in breast milk from Germany with specific regard to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
• Substituting Environmentally Relevant Flame Retardants: Assessment Fundamentals: Results and summary overview, UBA-Texte 40/01

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Fluorinated greenhouse gases

• Avoiding Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases – Prospects for Phasing Out
• Comparative Assessment of the Climate Relevance of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems and Equipment
• Directive 2006/40/EC relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles PDF / 87 KB
• Emissions of the refrigerant R 134a in mobile air-conditioning systems, Frankfurt/Main, 2001 (please note: German and English versions are combined in one document)
• Establishing the Leakage Rates of Mobile Air Conditioners, Frankfurt/Main, 2003 PDF / 369 KB
• Global projection of F-gas emissions shows high increase until 2050 PDF / 253 KB
• HFC-containing Propellants in Canned PU Foam (OCF); Estimation of the reduction potential of emissions from OCF with regard to a clarification of the provisions given in §9(1) of Regulation (EC) 842/2006; Climate Change 11/2009
• Natural refrigerants – CO₂ air conditioning unit put to practical testing
• Natural Refrigerants for Mobile Air-Conditioning in Passenger Cars
• Projections of global emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases in 2050
• Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases (PDF / 101 KB
• Risks and Benefits of fluorinated Greenhouse Gases
• Tests of the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) conducted on the refrigerant 1234yf Tetrafluorpropen
  • First Test report „Determination of the Explosion Region of Ethane-HFO1234yf-Air Mixtures“, November 2009 PDF / 2,3 MB
  • Final Report “Ignition Behaviour of HFO1234yf”, June 2010 PDF / 2,29 MB

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Green information technology

• Regulations in the German Länder in the field of green public procurement

Life cycle assessments

• Valuation as an element of life cycle assessments - German Federal Environmental Agency method for impact indicator standardization, impact category grouping (ranking), and interpretation in accordance with ISO 14042 and 14043 (1999 version)

Office devices

• Testing of Emissions from Office Devices during the Printing Phase for the Advancement of the Blue Angel Environmental Award for Laser Printers and Multi-function Devices with Special Consideration of Ensuring Good Indoor Air Quality

Products labelling

• Environmental information for products and services - Requirements- Instruments- Examples- 2008
• Substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction (CMR) and other substances of concern in consumer products – Identification of relevant substances and articles, analytical control and consequences for the regulation of chemicals
  • English-language summary PDF / 146 KB
  • complete version in German
• Testing of Emissions from Office Devices during the Printing Phase for the Advancement of the Blue Angel Environmental Award for Laser Printers and Multi-function Devices with Special Consideration of Ensuring Good Indoor Air Quality
• The Blue Angel at a Glance

More information

• more publications in German
• UBA databases in German

 

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