Publications

This tome of the report contains a synopsis of the emission measurement results in found-ry industry plants.

Based on the Directive on Industrial Emissions (IED, which replaced Directive 2008/01/EC) an information exchange about Best Available Techniques (BAT) between industry, Member States and Environmental NGO is organised by the European Commission for industry sectors mentioned in Annex 1 of the IED. It was intended to start drafting and updating the BAT documents on foundries in 2012.

Biodiversity in Europe is strongly affected by the deposition of nitrogen and sulfur on terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, the deposition of these atmospheric substances is assessed for the years 2008 and 2009 within the PINETI project. Dry, wet and occult deposition of NHx, NOy, SOx and the base cations Ca2+, Mg2+, K+ und Na+ are calculated and added up to the total deposition.

In 2010 environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany amounted to more than €52 billion. The state granted subsidies among others to the lignite industry and aviation sector. The volume of subsidies therefore remains high –  and there is no sign of a systematic reduction. Environmentally harmful subsidies not only thwart environmental protection, they are also a burden on public funds.

This project investigated the ecotoxicological hazard of two different sized TiO2 nanomaterials and one non-nano sized TiO2 reference material to organisms inhabiting different environmental compartments. Following standardized tests (OECD guidelines) were used to investigate the influence of these materials on several test organisms:  Daphnia sp. acute immobilization test (Test No.

The “Workshop on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases” took place September 30th to October 2nd , 2014 in Berlin  as a joint meeting of the German Society of Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA) and the “Workshop on Tick-borne Diseases” of the National Reference Laboratory for Q Fever of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut.

As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force.

Air conditioning systems for passenger cars in the EU must switch to a new refrigerant for the sake of climate protection. However, UBA is not the only one to believe that many car manufacturers are backing the wrong horse. The new refrigerant R1234yf can ignite during accidents and hydrofluoric acid may form.

In order to identify sensitive organisms, biological endpoints in vivo and suitable in vitro test systems for the biomonitoring of pharmaceuticals, a two-part literature search was conducted.

Automobiles, planes, ships, machinery, facades and the interior of build-ings, furniture, household appliances, magazines, posters and data stor-age devices: The list of products covered with lacquers and paints is sheer endless. In 2012 about 2.6 million tons of lacquer, paint and printing ink were produced in Germany (VdL 2013). This shows how important these products are in our daily lives.

This report describes and discusses approaches for the environmental risk assessment (aquatic compartment) of mixtures under REACH. Different types of mixtures are defined. The focus lies on technical mixtures and discharge mixtures. Cumulative and aggregated exposures are considered. Interfaces to other regulations (e.g.

The contribution of outdoor jackets as a source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) regarding the environmental and human exposure in Germany and other member states of the European Union (EU) has been investigated. Following the development of robust and validated analytical methods for 24 different PFASs, a total of five impregnating agents and 16 different jackets were analyzed.