… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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: …

… renewable energy. Flow chart of guarantees of origin in Germany Source: Umweltbundesamt Information for electricity suppliers The detailed rules and regulations governing the HKNR can be found in the Guarantees of Origin and Guarantees of Regional Origin Implementing Ordinance ( Herkunfts- und Regionalnachweis-Durchführungsverordnung – HkRNDV ). Participants, e.g. …

… for Germany was adopted by the Federal Cabinet. This strategy and the associated “programme of water measures” lay the foundation for a sustainable management of our water resources and the protection of …