Publications

In the last decade environmental monitoring is of increasing interest to provide politicians, stakeholders, decision-makers and the general public with information needed to design an adequate environment policy. Some experience is already gained in the field of technical and chemical based surveillance of environmental impacts and levels of pollutants.

“Environmental Data Germany 2002” is published jointly by the Federal Environmental Agency and the Federal Statistical Office. Decisions are made each day which have a direct or indirect influence on the environment.

During the process of implementing the EU solvent directive (1999/13/EC) in national law, it was found that all stakeholders urgently require information in regard to the Directive.

The dioxin reference program is founded on a decision by the 37th conference of Federal and Länder Ministers for the Environment of the Federal Republic of Germany, 21-22 November 1991.

Taking as a basis a Bundesrat decision (Bundesrats-Drucksache 140/90), the Federal and Laender Ministers for the Environment decided at their 34th Conference at the beginning of the 90s to set up a Government/Laender working group on DIOXINS. This working group was commissioned inter alia with initiating and coordinating measuring programs, and documenting and evaluating data.

This report has been prepared as part of a bilateral German-Czech project on 'Energy and Environment in the Czech Republic' that has been financed by the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature protection and Nuclear Safety.

International Conference, Bonn, 21 to 22 May 2001

Die Bedeutung von Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen (NGOs) in der internationalen Umweltzusammenarbeit hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten enorm zugenommen.

Your balance sheet shows that energy consumption is down, and the emissions of dust particles have declined as well during the past few years. On the other hand, you find that considerable quantities of water are still being consumed, despite your efforts to reduce them. Should your company now focus on the water problem?

Environmental quality criteria are established and used in most industrialized countries to determine whether organisms, public health or materials are jeopardized by hazardous substances. The criteria are determined by means of different methods, however, depending on the legal context and individual national characteristics.

In conjunction with the implementation process of the Baltic 21, the Agenda 21 for the Baltic Sea Region, the Umweltbundesamt Berlin has asked the Institute for Tourism and Recreational Research in Northern Europe (N.I.T.), Kiel, to develop a system of indicators for the development of sustainable tourism that could be used by local and regional levels of planning.

The aim of the Twinning project was to strengthen the institutional structures and the regulatory capacity of the Czech authorities, which are involved in the enforcement of environmental law, and to prepare them to implement and enforce EC legislation.