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  • Article from 23.04.2025 | Last changed: 23.06.2025

    Research and development projects on nanomaterials

    Nano structures

    … smaller than the diameter of an human hair Source: eugenesergeev / Fotolia.com The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is currently funding and guiding the … projects please refer to the research database Umweltforschungsdatenbank UFORDAT in German and the corresponding number. last update on 23.04.2025 OECD Test Guideline … is significant to understand in which form and amount engineered nanomaterials are present in the environment. The research project aims to develop an OECD test …

  • Article from 06.07.2020 | Last changed: 07.12.2023

    Plant safety

    … rules and regulations. Moreover, we document and analyze industrial accidents in Germany and elsewhere with the goal of avoiding future accidents or at least keeping them to a minimum. German, European and international plant safety requirements Inasmuch as plant … and improving their application in practice. Following is a brief discussion of Germany’s main plant safety regulations. Federal Immission Control Act …

  • Article from 21.05.2025 | Last changed: 21.05.2025

    UMID: Environment and Human Health – Information Service

    Nori-Algenflakes auf einem weißen Teller

    UMID: Environment and Human Health – Information Service In the context of climate … / CC0 The magazine "UMID: Environment and Human Health - Information Service" (German: "UMID: Umwelt und Mensch – Informationsdienst") is published annually in 2 … Editorial information UMID: Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ISSN 1862-4189 (Internet) Published by Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS)   Bundesinstitut für …

  • Article from 10.08.2017 | Last changed: 15.03.2019

    telegram: environment+health

    title telegram environment + health

    … developments in the field of environmental health and environmental medicine. We presented articles on current health-related environmental problems, results from … intervals and   published by the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the German Environment Agency . As from 2015 issues are also available in English. … developments in the field of environmental health and environmental medicine. We presented articles on current health-related environmental problems, results from …

  • Article from 23.04.2020 | Last changed: 23.04.2020

    Opinion of the Human Biomonitoring Commission (HBM)

    Opinion of the Human Biomonitoring Commission (HBM) The Human Biomonitoring … has published opinions on many substances in various specialist journals (only in German language). last update on 23.04.2020 The HBM Commission's opinions are … auf der Basis tolerabler Aufnahmemengen - Teil II The German Human Biomonitoring Commission Schulz C, Angerer J, Ewers U, Kolossa-Gehring …

  • Article from 07.11.2017 | Last changed: 07.11.2017

    Nanomaterial

    white aerosol can sprays in front of black background

    … at very high concentrations, lung cancer in the animals tested. For nanomaterials present in sun creams it is clear that sound skin acts as an excellent barrier. … Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety set up the Nano-Commission of the German Federal Government in the autumn of 2006 to promote discussion on the … at very high concentrations, lung cancer in the animals tested. For nanomaterials present in sun creams it is clear that sound skin acts as an excellent barrier. …

  • Article from 07.01.2020 | Last changed: 07.01.2020

    Legal provisions

    paragraphs

    … or entirely in the remit of the Federal Ministry for Environment, assisted by the German Environment Agency. Other regulations for further product groups or further … Source: Microsoft Office / UBA Associated content Links German legal texts, online (in German) Online access to European Union law Federal Institute for Risk Assessment …

  • Article from 18.08.2016 | Last changed: 13.11.2017

    Reducing pollution through product design

    Makes shopping by bike or on foot fun, and saves resources too: the multifunctional H tour trailer.

    Reducing pollution through product design Makes shopping by bike or on foot fun, and … solutions based on the life cycle assessment method. International, European and German standardization authorities have in the meantime also issued standards and … of energy-using products throughout their entire life cycle. Since 2012, the German Federal Ministry for Environment and the German Environment Agency have held …

  • Article from 14.02.2022 | Last changed: 15.02.2022

    Economic issues

    … of exemptions under Article 4. Achievement of cost-recovery water prices (including environmental and resource costs) under Article 9 and Annex 3. These … have to be achieved simultaneously, but at different times: The economic analysis represents an economic inventory of water uses and must be carried out for each river … the fact that water protection measures are disproportionately expensive. In Germany, extensions of the deadline have so far mainly been used to maintain the …

  • Article from 04.01.2023 | Last changed: 22.08.2025

    Floods - how they form and how we influence them

    Flooded elbe river near Dessau

    … the landscape has a direct impact on the course of a flood. Most flowing waters in Germany have been straightened, dyked and dammed in the past to gain settlement … transport purposes. This corresponds to the area of approximately 73 soccer fields (in German: ( UBA 2021). Man-made global warming The natural water cycle is … models and ensembles and Climate change ) and also under the following links (in German): Climate Service Centre Germany (GERICS) German Climate Data Centre German

  • Article from 02.02.2022 | Last changed: 25.07.2025

    Maritime shipping

    Sailing boat and container ship in the harbor of Hamburg

    … 2,000 vessels cross the Baltic Sea each day at any time. In close vicinity to the German coast, maritime shipping in the North Sea masses in the Southern German Bight … sewage, ballast water and ship-generated sewage. The various levels of jurisdiction (international maritime and environmental law, European law, national law) are … Design . Associated content Links Uses of and impacts on the seas (predominantly German) Marine Conservation Law (German only) IMO, marine environment and shipping …

  • Article from 12.12.2025 | Last changed: 12.12.2025

    Overview

    … for regulatory environmental protection", Janicke Consulting on behalf of the German Environment Agency, UBA). The program package AUSTAL2000 is a tool for … CCMS conference in San Francisco, which took place end of August 1981, I had just presented my formulation of Lagrangian modelling in inhomogeneous turbulence, … Kirkwood, in the mountains east from Jackson, in order to bring our ideas together (in the framework of the UBA project "handbook for immission calculations"). We, …