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The Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC-Directive96/61/EG), which was adopted by the Council of the European Community, has a significant impact on the permission of various industrial installations.

The Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC-Directive96/61/EG), which was adopted by the Council of the European Community, has a significant impact on the permission of various industrial installations.

The Federal Government has presented a programme setting out specific measures to further reduce emissions of major air pollutants. This programme aims to meet the national emission ceilings (NECs) laid down in Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and the of Council on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants, which entered into force on 27 November 2001.

Nutrient concentrations during winter from the starting conditions for the annual phytoplankton development beginning in spring and reaching its maximum during summer. For this reason nutrient data were collected from the central north Sea during winter and summer, to calculate long-time means, interannual variability and local trends.

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.