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    Recommendations for your tender

    Recommendations for your tender These product recommendations are intended as an aid to green procurement for contracting authorities. Recommendations Cleaning and hygiene Hand drying … are intended as an aid to green procurement for contracting authorities. … Recommendations for your tender

  • Article from 26.02.2014 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Soil pollutants

    Photo of soils in a glas.

    … by natural substances such as the minerals contained in the rock from which soil is formed that are released due to weathering. For example, ore mineral deposits in near-surface soils (mineralization) induced by … Humans and nature benefit from it. Source: S. Marahrens / Umweltbundesamt Download image (543.09 kB) Soil-relevant pollutant groups Source: Umweltbundesamt …

  • Article from 09.03.2021 | Last changed: 09.03.2021

    Mining law

    The extraction of lignite from opencast mines is also subject to mining law

  • Article from 05.02.2018 | Last changed: 05.02.2018

    What qualifications are needed for environmental protection?

    What qualifications are needed for environmental protection? The range of … In addition to the respective expert knowledge, soft skills are often important for environmental professionals, such as the ability to work in an interdisciplinary …

  • Article from 13.09.2023 | Last changed: 06.10.2023

    The Rotterdam Convention

    a container-ship

    … it, such substances may only be imported into a country if that country has been informed of the hazards in advance and has given its consent ("Prior Informed Consent"). Over 160 countries have ratified the Rotterdam Convention to date. … The Rotterdam Convention is called in full the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in …

  • Article from 21.02.2023 | Last changed: 21.02.2023

    Environmental management at UBA

    EMAS logo on the face of the UBA office building in Dessau-Roßlau

    … at UBA UBA was the first federal authority to receive the EMAS certificate for its environmental management Source: Umweltbundesamt The UBA had already … objectives and measures with which UBA aims to achieve them. Our guidelines for environmentally friendly business travel (in German) help to minimise the … published on our web page about green public procurement. Product groups for which there is a  Blue Angel ecolabel  available must always comply with the …

  • Article from 20.11.2025 | Last changed: 24.11.2025

    Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines

    … – UBA ) has been tasked with stipulating mandatory evaluation criteria for materials and substances that come into contact with drinking water. Previously, … for organic materials in contact with drinking water The appendixes can be downloaded separately: Annex 1 : Application for inclusion of a starting substance …

  • Article from 19.07.2024 | Last changed: 19.07.2024

    Questions and Answers on Water Reuse

    … water can contain pathogens and pollutants. Questions and answers on the proposal for a regulation submitted by the European Commission on 28 May 2018. last update on … is water reuse? We are in fact continuously reusing water. After all, all water forms part of a large water cycle Thus water reuse in this context refers to the … water cycles as a means of alleviating regional shortages. This can take the form of the recirculation of water in industrial production processes, which is …

  • Article from 15.04.2020 | Last changed: 15.04.2020

    Pesticides

    … protection agents and biocides complied with the environmental quality standards for the period 2016-2018 at the monitoring sites of the German Working Group on … - 2018 with the environmental quality standard Source: Federal Environment Agency Downloads: (143.32 kB) Associated content Links Biozides Plant protection products …