Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Economy | Consumption

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC)

German notes on best available techniques in the Refinery Industry

In this chapter, the candidates BAT with a high environmental protection performance are summarized. Beside the most important individual measures, information about configuration of the plant in the context of BAT is given. It should be noted that the configuration of new plants can be adapted for integration of BAT. Because most refineries have grown over the past decades, fundamental changes in...read more

Chemicals, Water

Emission inventory of the German Baltic Sea catchment area

As a part of the scientific project “Emission inventory of the German Baltic Sea catchment area” several investigations of selected point source discharges as well as of important German Baltic rivers are performed. According of the HELCOM list of “priority harmful substances”  balances are derived for the annual pollution input into the Baltic Sea from Germany. The objective of the project was to...read more

Waste | Resources, Agriculture

Study of Research Needs for Sustainable Fisheries

The fourth North Sea Conference (4NSC) held in Esbjerg in 995 and the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting on the Integration of Fisheries and Environmental Issues (IMM) held in Bergen in 1997 identified the need for particular research to support marine environmental protection and the sustainable development of fisheries. In support of these commitments, the German Federal Environmental Agency (Umwe...read more

Chemicals, Economy | Consumption

Specifications in the application form for environmental assessment of wood preservatives

In 1990 the former Federal Health Office (Bundesgesundheitsamt) and the Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) jointly elaborated a catalogue of test requirements necessary for assessing the impact of wood preservatives on man and environment. Based on several years of experience, a revision was deemed necessary.read more

Chemicals, Water

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Discharges/Losses into Surface Waters

A Workshop of the German Federal Environmental Agency

In view of the eutrophication of surface waters including the North and Baltic Seas due to excessive inputs of nutrients, a reduction of nutrient inputs of the order of 50% between 1985 and 1995 was agreed upon at ministerial level for both maritime areas in the framework of the International Conferences on the Protection of the North Sea and the Helsinki Convention. As this political goal - notab...read more

Water

Environmental Quality Objectives and Action Targets for Water Protection

- Status Report and Prospects -

Since the presentation of the Report of the UN Commission for Environment and Development (Brundtland Report) in 1987 and the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 the concept of "sustainable development" has dominated the environmental debate world-wide. The 1994 Commission of Inquiry of the German Federal Parliament "Protection of Man an...read more

Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Annual Report 2000 - Federal Environmental Agency

Consumer protection is now the talk of the town since the occurrence of the so-called mad-cow disease and the spreading of foot and mouth disease, after the insights into the misuse of medicines in livestock fattening and other “scandals” in food production. The UBA has always considered consumer interests to be an important point of reference for its work, after all,  without intact, natural foun...read more