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  • Article from 19.03.2019 | Last changed: 07.02.2024

    European testing procedure: Emissions from construction products

    A gypsum board in an emissions testing chamber.

    … to date to include information concerning environmental and health protection under the CE marking. Meanwhile, various testing methods for emissions from … A harmonised European method for the testing of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from construction products in indoor air, DIN EN 16516 (previously DIN … declaration). From mid-2019 the German EPD provider Institut für Bauen und Umwelt (IBU) integrates corresponding indications on VOC as a mandatory element …

  • Article from 22.11.2016 | Last changed: 27.03.2017

    Food waste in the catering sector

    Schmackhafte Desserts an einem Buffet.

    … in land take, 84 full bathtubs of water and greenhouse gas emissions equal to a roundtrip flight from Frankfurt to New York. In addition, production and transport … ". Excessive food production is an unnecessary environmental burden. Source: Umweltbundesamt Catering in everyday life The catering market in Germany is an exciting … Many events are catered. Waste can be prevented systematically. Source: Umweltbundesamt Download image (2.06 MB) Proper planning of food quantity is essential in …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Large scale projects under the administrative agreement

    Large scale projects under the administrative agreement Large scale projects at a … kilometer industrial area on the Spree river in southeast Berlin. Historical background: Beginning with dawn of industrialization, in 1870, and until very recently, … information is available from Landesamt für Umwelt des Landes Brandenburg . … Large scale projects under the administrative agreement

  • Article from 19.03.2014 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Networks, joint regional-state-federal groups, associations

    … field of contamination cleanup has been ongoing for many years, thanks to project funding from the European Commission. last update on 19.03.2014 National level Bund/Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bodenschutz (LABO) The LABO is the federal and … The LABO advises the UMK and the Konferenz der Amtschefs der Umweltministerien des Bundes und der Länder (ACK, conference of the chiefs of staffs of federal and …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Research and funding

    Research and funding Strategic financing of applied research has considerably … site-contamination R&D since the 1980s, to the tune of more than €300 million in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and third parties. … implemented by the SOILveR - Soil and Land Research Funding Platform for Europe . … Research and funding

  • Article from 10.08.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Large scale ecological projects

    Major projects

    … Locations of major projects Source: Frauenstein PDF-Datei (Download) (491.85 kB) Under the unification treaty that was concluded with the former East Germany, the … as an impediment to investment, create jobs, and retain existing jobs. Under the unification treaty that was concluded with the former East Germany at the … laws. The federal government and regional states agreed to undertake 21 large scale ecological projects, based on economic and environmental …

  • Article from 07.07.2020 | Last changed: 17.11.2025

    Activities at the federal level

    … Soil protection and contaminated-site remediation fall to the federal government under the BBodSchG law and BBodSchV regulation, and are enforced by the various … specific rights and duties. The government’s property portfolio was managed by the Bundesvermögensverwaltung from 1950 to 2004, and thereafter by the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA). The BImA agency manages the federal …

  • Article from 04.07.2013 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    Site remediation

    … which likewise fall to the authorities. Such investigations centre around the manner in which the site in question was used (e.g. accidents or spills that … is not set in stone. In the event a given investigation provides an indisputably sound basis for a definitive hazard assessment, the authorizing body can decide to … which are obtained using technical investigation measures such as soil and groundwater sample assays. The preliminary nature of such investigations is reflected …

  • Article from 10.12.2025 | Last changed: 10.12.2025

    Sustainable resource use in the leisure sector

    Top view of a soccer field

    … at a concert – leisure activities are a welcome change from everyday life and are fundamental to our well-being. Leisure activities are of great ecological relevance, … energy sources, metals, minerals and renewable raw materials. This is a share of around 13% of total German raw material consumption. The research project The UBA … 2024-2027 Project No.: FKZ 3720 31 101 0 Contractors : ifeu – Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH, Öko-Institut e. V., Franziska Mohaupt    …

  • Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BO-I-3: Rainfall erosivity

    The legend comprises six categories for the rainfall erosivity (unit: kilojoules per square metre multiplied by millimetres per hour) as a district average for the years 2017 to 2021.

    … the weathering of rock and the decomposition of organic matter, takes at least a hundred years. Soil losses, for instance resulting from erosion by water or wind, are … G., König W., Utermann J. (Hg.) Bodenschutz, Ergänzbares Handbuch der Maßnahmen und Empfehlungen für Schutz, Pflege und Sanierung von Böden, Landschaft und

  • Article from 12.03.2018 | Last changed: 13.02.2025

    Substances hazardous to waters

    … web data base . Substances without a published  WGK classification in neither the Bundesanzeiger nor on the Rigoletto data base  must be regarded as highly hazardous … the WGK documentation according to Appendix 2 Number 1 of the AwSV to the Umweltbundesamt. An editable form of the documentation sheet according to Appendix 2 number … Documents. Signed documentation forms for substances are to be addressed to Umweltbundesamt Fachgebiet IV 2.6 Wassergefährdende Stoffe Schichauweg 58 12307 Berlin or: …