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  • Article from 22.06.2023 | Last changed: 22.06.2023

    Laws of environmental liability, harm and criminal actions

    dead bird in the water

    … The development of environmental liability law at EU level and a compact presentation of the conditions and legal consequences of the practical application … protection through environmental liability - the Environmental Damage Act”). The German Environment Agency has for many years been engaged in the further development … - a declining trend in environmental crime. In the form of detailed graphical representations and explanatory notes on the latest crime statistics, the volume …

  • Article from 21.11.2024 | Last changed: 21.11.2024

    Access to environmental information

    Blick auf Bürgerinformation und Bibliothek im UBA-Gebäude Dessau-Roßlau

    Access to environmental information The Environmental Information service at the … February 2005 and transposes the Environmental Information Directive 2003/4/EC into German law. The Länder (German states) have enacted their own laws on freedom of …

  • Article from 03.12.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2020

    Immission control law

    Two chimneys blow out white smoke

    … but it also protects all other environmental media such as soil and water (integrative approach). It creates the legal basis upon which hazard control … of the body of statutory instruments that makes up immission control legislation. German immission control legislation has undergone a dynamic development since … under the Federal Immission Control Act with regard to energy efficiency. Present legislation is scrutinised for its interpretation of these obligations to …

  • Article from 09.09.2019 | Last changed: 10.09.2019

    Better Environmental Regulation

    Symbols: Books-Brain-Light

    … effective, enforceable and free of contradictions and unnecessary bureaucracy. The German Environment Agency strives to improve environmental law, for example through … businesses and public administration, which legal regulations can create. Both the German Federal Government, at national level, and the European Commission at European level have put programmes for Better Regulation into place. The German Environment Agency aims to make environmental law more efficient and …

  • Article from 22.01.2021 | Last changed: 22.01.2021

    Environmental Code

    The Environmental Code in the grass

    … laws. last update on 22.01.2021 Reasons for an Environmental Code (UGB) German environmental law has evolved over many years and due to pressure exerted by … expressed its intention to consider whether and how to reform and make more uniform German environmental law. The German Environment Agency thereupon commissioned … Law” and “Harmonisation of Environmental Law”. In 1990 the "Group of Professors" presented its first draft (Reports of the German Environment Agency 7/90) which …

  • Article from 19.06.2024 | Last changed: 20.06.2024

    International environmental law

    paragraphs

    International environmental law Statutory regulations are aimed protection of the … under international law Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day. Mankind has traditionally adopted two different strategies for … public access to information about the release and transfer of pollutants. The German Environment Agency provides this information on the thru.de Internet …

  • Article from 13.06.2023 | Last changed: 11.08.2025

    Air monitoring networks

    … of the Federal Länder are available at the websites of the agencies responsible (in German). Questions concerning specific sites or data in the Länder can be answered … are often imperceptible to the human senses. They are invisible yet always present in moving air masses. Some air pollutants occur in such low concentrations …

  • Article from 12.01.2023 | Last changed: 16.08.2023

    2022-2025 Dialogue on Micropollutants

    … for mitigating micropollutants in water bodies is currently underway at the German Centre for Micropollutants as part of a research project. last update on … National Water Dialogue of the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV) and the German Environment Agency, the BMUV presented the draft of a National Water Strategy in 2021. It has been adopted in …

  • Article from 07.02.2023 | Last changed: 14.11.2024

    Relevant Micropollutants

    … "Federal Strategy on Trace Substances". The relevance assessment is focused on Germany. The assessment is based on the current state of knowledge and is linked to … Associated content Links Checklist: Diclofenac UBA: Pain Relief Gel with Diclofenac (in German) Checklist: 1H-Benzotriazole Checklist: Sulphamic Acid Checklist: …

  • Article from 23.03.2015 | Last changed: 13.11.2017

    Thermal treatment

    waste incineration plant

    … Thermal waste treatment, which is one of the mainstays of waste disposal in Germany, is carried out via various types of installations, depending on the type of … plant in Kiel/Wellsee, while two other municipal waste incineration plants (in Augsburg and Bielefeld) incinerate infectious healthcare waste in separate … plant in Kiel/Wellsee, while two other municipal waste incineration plants (in Augsburg and Bielefeld) incinerate infectious healthcare waste in separate …

  • Article from 17.11.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2020

    Environmental awareness in Germany

    People walking in a park.

    Environmental awareness in Germany For most people, an intact environment is an … was carried out in the early summer of 2019. Out of all the problems which Germany faced in 2018 and again in 2019, environmental protection and climate action … Agency (UBA), published the results of its twelfth representative survey on environmental awareness in Germany. Every two years since 1996, data on attitudes …

  • 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

    … Green Cloud Computing (GCC) research report can be used to answer these questions (in German) . We developed a methodology to record the environmental impact of abiotic …