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  • Article from 03.12.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2020

    Immission control law

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    … Immission control law Immissions refer to the impact of external pollutants on man and nature. Source: Christian Noval / Fotolia.com Immission control is one of the key areas of environmental protection law. Its aim is to reduce potentially harmful impacts on … plans to comply with air quality standards and for the establishment of noise action plans in areas that are particularly exposed to noise. Statutory regulations …

  • Article from 09.09.2019 | Last changed: 10.09.2019

    Better Environmental Regulation

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    Better Environmental Regulation Better regulation improves and simplifies regulations Source: fotogestoeber / Fotolia.com Better Regulation … at national level, and the European Commission at European level have put programmes for Better Regulation into place. The German Environment Agency aims to …

  • Article from 22.01.2021 | Last changed: 22.01.2021

    Environmental Code

    The Environmental Code in the grass

    Environmental Code Environmental Code Source: Silke Seider / Umweltbundesamt A uniform Environmental Code shall harmonise and simplify the host of individual environmental laws. last update on 22.01.2021 …

  • Article from 10.01.2018 | Last changed: 10.01.2018

    Spatial planning law

    Industrial facilities on the river

    … Spatial planning law construction of more and more new industrial facilities destroys the landscape Source: fotolehmann / Fotolia.com Many projects that make use of land can have negative environmental impacts. This includes soil sealing or even degradation of natural … instruments or on how they can be developed further. Another important field of action for spatial planning in future will be the subsurface. Commercial land-use …

  • Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    International environmental law

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    International environmental law Statutory regulations are aimed protection of the environment. … problems cannot be solved by national environmental regulations alone. Action at international level is required to effectively protect the environment. … disputes. Beside the possibility of upgrading the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to a UN organisation or creating a new global environment

  • Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

    Air monitoring networks

    … Länder can be answered there by qualified staff. Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Lower Saxony North … occur in such low concentrations that they do not have any effect on humans or the environment. With others it takes a long time until their effects are manifest. In … Each air monitoring station in Germany (Federal or Länder) has a specific measuring programme and works with specific measuring instruments. Information both on …

  • Article from 12.01.2023 | Last changed: 16.08.2023

    2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants

    … 2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants A stakeholder dialogue on voluntary and manufacturer-responsible measures for mitigating micropollutants in water bodies … Background After a two-year National Water Dialogue of the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV) and the German Environment Agency, the BMUV presented the draft … increasing, endangering their ecological condition, and that this is making the extraction and provision of drinking water increasingly complex and expensive.  Against …

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … Relevant Micropollutants Which micropollutants are an environmental risk for water bodies and should therefore be scrutinised more closely? This is evaluated by the Committee …

  • Article from 12.06.2025 | Last changed: 18.06.2025

    Climate Action in Agriculture on a global level

    A farmer plows a field with a ox plow

    Climate Action in Agriculture on a global level Breaking with traditions – towards … Paris Agreement . In addition, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the environmental impact of the food system within planetary boundaries. In order to … agenda item was entitled “Issues related to agriculture” and later became the work programmes “Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture” (2017-2022) and “Sharm el-Sheikh …

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Military and armament contaminated sites

    Military and armament contaminated sites Although there is no legal definition in Germany for the terms Militärische Altlasten (military-contaminated sites) and Rüstungsaltlasten (armanent-contaminated sites), they nonetheless fall within … military sites, contact the competent federal or regional-state authorities. … Military and armament contaminated sites

  • Article from 17.11.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2020

    Environmental awareness in Germany

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    Environmental awareness in Germany For most people, an intact environment is an … Source: LauraTara / pixabay.com last update on 17.11.2020 Environmental protection and climate action as a key challenge In addition to the scheduled survey of 2018, an …

  • Article from 10.01.2022 | Last changed: 25.01.2024

    Digital services / Cloud computing

    someone is typing on a laptop, with symbols for cloud computing such as clouds and download arrows above them

    … as possible Source: Blue Planet Studio / Adobe Stock Home office, videoconferencing and streaming services are digital services that are nowadays taken for granted. But what about the environmental impact of cloud services and the critical resources which are used in …