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Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Founded in 1974, the UBA is Germany’s central federal authority on environmental matters. Its key statutory mandates are:- To provide scientific support to the Federal Government (e.g.. the Federal Ministries for Environment, Health, Research, Transport, Building and Urban Affairs),- Implementation of environmental laws (e.g. emissions trading, authorisation of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plant protection agents), - Information of the public about environmental protection.
Activities
- Funding
Coordinated projects
Financed funding programmes
Involved in research projects
- Analysis of antibiotic residues in matrices of plant origin
- Availability of health and environmental data for high tonnage chemicals under REACH – Finalisation of Phase II and Phase III processing: substances with a registration of 100-1,000 t/a - REACH Compliance III
- Conception, Coordination, Implementation and Evaluation of the Soil Condition Inventory in forests (BZE II)
- Estimating and monitoring of net-emissions from carbon storage in Harvested Wood Products (HWP), including GHG-inventory
- European Human Biomonitoring Initiative
- GHG Inventories for Afforestation, Deforestation and Forest Management in the 1st commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol
- Greenhouse gas inventory for forests
- Hygienic risk of the agricultural use of sewage sludge due to the uptake of human pathogens in crop plants: Research into the uptake of human pathogens by crop plants via soil and water
- Optimizing the Collection, the Processing and the Integrated Recovery of Material and Energy from Green Waste in Germany
Contact
Federal Environmental Agency
(UBA)
Postfach 33 00 22
D-14191 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 8903-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 8903-2285
Email: thomas.hagbeck(@)uba.de
