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{{Short description|German environmental agency}}
{{Short description|German environmental agency}}
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The '''Umweltbundesamt''' ({{IPA-de|ˈʊmvɛltˌbʊndəsʔamt|-|De-Umweltbundesamt.ogg}}; '''UBA''', {{IPA-de|uːbeːˈʔaː|lang|De-UBA.ogg}}) is the environment agency of the German government. Together with the [[Federal Agency for Nature Conservation|Bundesamt für Naturschutz]] ("federal agency for nature conservation), the [[Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit]] ("federal office for the safety of nuclear waste management), and the [[Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz]] ("federal office for nuclear radiation protection), it operates under the jurisdiction of the [[Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/the-uba/about-us |title=About us |date=6 September 2013}}</ref> The tasks of the office are primarily "the scientific support of the federal government (including the Federal Ministeries for the Environment, Health, Economy and Climate Protection, Education and Research, Transport and Digital Infrastructure), the implementation of environmental laws (e.g., emission rights trade, admission of chemicals, medicinal and pesticides), and public information on environmental protection",<ref>[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/das-uba/wer-wir-sind Das UBA – wer wir sind].</ref> based on independent research. With around 1,600 employees, the agency is the largest environmental authority in Europe.<ref>Markus Balser, Klaus Ott: ''Geheime Daten – Schon lange wurden Abgas-Manipulationen vermutet''. In: ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'', 21 April 2016, S. 19: "Das Umweltbundesamt mit 1500 Mitarbeitern gilt als die größte und mächtigste Umweltbehörde Europas."</ref><ref>{{citation|access-date=2019-06-26|author=Petra Pinzler, Martin Spiewak|date=2017-11-01|issn=0044-2070|location=Hamburg|periodical=Die Zeit|title=Maria Krautzberger: "Die anderen haben aufgeholt"|url=https://www.zeit.de/2017/44/maria-krautzberger-umweltbundesamt-energiewende-dieselskandal}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
The '''Umweltbundesamt''' ({{IPA-de|ˈʊmvɛltˌbʊndəsʔamt|-|De-Umweltbundesamt.ogg}}; '''UBA''', {{IPA-de|uːbeːˈʔaː|lang|De-UBA.ogg}}) is the environment agency of the German government. Together with the [[Federal Agency for Nature Conservation|Bundesamt für Naturschutz]] ("federal agency for nature conservation"), the [[Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit]] ("federal office for the safety of nuclear waste management"), and the [[Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz]] ("federal office for nuclear radiation protection"), it operates under the jurisdiction of the [[Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/the-uba/about-us |title=About us |date=6 September 2013}}</ref> The tasks of the office are primarily "the scientific support of the federal government (including the Federal Ministries for the Environment, Health, Economy and Climate Protection, Education and Research, Transport and Digital Infrastructure), the implementation of environmental laws (e.g., emission rights trade, admission of chemicals, medicinal and pesticides), and public information on environmental protection",<ref>[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/das-uba/wer-wir-sind Das UBA – wer wir sind].</ref> based on independent research. With around 1,600 employees, the agency is the largest environmental authority in Europe.<ref>Markus Balser, Klaus Ott: ''Geheime Daten – Schon lange wurden Abgas-Manipulationen vermutet''. In: ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'', 21 April 2016, S. 19: "Das Umweltbundesamt mit 1500 Mitarbeitern gilt als die größte und mächtigste Umweltbehörde Europas."</ref><ref>{{citation|access-date=26 June 2019|author=Petra Pinzler, Martin Spiewak|date=1 November 2017|issn=0044-2070|location=Hamburg|periodical=Die Zeit|title=Maria Krautzberger: "Die anderen haben aufgeholt"|url=https://www.zeit.de/2017/44/maria-krautzberger-umweltbundesamt-energiewende-dieselskandal}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>


==History==
==History==
In the early 1970s, the FDP politician and then-interior minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher called for the creation of an environmental authority to match similar bodies in the US and Sweden. Against resistance, especially by the Ministry of Health and Science, which feared a loss of competence in the field of environmental protection, the Federal Office of Environmental Affairs was created in 1973, and on July 22, 1974, became the Federal Environment Agency, as an independent federal authority, based in Berlin.<ref>{{citation|title=Hören Sie mal |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42971855.html|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|year=1972|issue=14|series=10 December|page=29}}</ref><ref>[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/dokument/gesetz-ueber-errichtung-eines-umweltbundesamtes Link zum Gesetz]</ref> The decision of the German Bundestag, on June 19, 1974, which established West Berlin as the seat of the office, led to official protests by the GDR State Department the following day.<ref>[https://www.hdg.de/lemo/jahreschronik/1974.html ''Chronik 1974''.] [[Deutsches Historisches Museum]]; retrieved 19 June 2009.</ref>
In the early 1970s, the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]] politician and then-interior minister [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]] called for the creation of an environmental authority to match similar bodies in the US and Sweden. Against resistance, especially by the [[Federal Ministry of Health (Germany)|Ministry of Health]], which feared a loss of competence in the field of environmental protection, the Federal Office of Environmental Affairs was created in 1973, and on 22 July 1974, became the Federal Environment Agency, as an independent federal authority, based in Berlin.<ref>{{citation|title=Hören Sie mal |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42971855.html|work=[[Der Spiegel]]|year=1972|issue=14|series=10 December|page=29}}</ref><ref>[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/dokument/gesetz-ueber-errichtung-eines-umweltbundesamtes Link zum Gesetz]</ref> The decision of the [[Bundestag]], on 19 June 1974, which established [[West Berlin]] as the seat of the office, led to official protests by the [[East Germany|GDR]] state department the following day.<ref>[https://www.hdg.de/lemo/jahreschronik/1974.html ''Chronik 1974''.] [[Deutsches Historisches Museum]]; retrieved 19 June 2009.</ref>


===Presidency===
=== Relocation of the office seat ===
The president of the Umweltbundesamt from 1974 to 1995 was the lawyer Heinrich von Lersner. He was succeeded by economist Andreas Troge, who led the agency until 2009, before ceding it to Jochen Flasbarth, who remained until 2013. Maria Krautzberger led the department between 2014 and 2020 and was succeeded by Dirk Messner<ref>{{cite news|title=rofessor Dirk Messner wird neuer Präsident des Umweltbundesamtes |url=https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/professor-dirk-messner-wird-neuer-praesident-des |website=umweltbundesamt.de |date=31 July 2019 |access-date=3 January 2024 |language=de |trans-title=Professor Dirk Messner becomes the new President of the Federal Environment Agency}}</ref>
On May 2, 2005, the office of the Federal Environment Office was relocated to Dessau-Roßlau (at that time still Dessau); A second branch remained in the original building on Bismarckplatz in Berlin.

=== President ===
President of the Federal Environment Agency was the lawyer Heinrich von Lersner from the foundation in 1974 to 1995, the economist Andreas Troge from 1995 to 2009 as well as the economist and long -time president of the Nature Conservation Association of Germany (NABU) Jochen Flasbarth from 2009 to December 2013. In May 2014, Maria Krautzberger appointed a president for the first time. On January 1, 2020, Professor Dirk Messner took the office of President of the Federal Environment Agency.<ref>[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/professor-dirk-messner-wird-neuer-praesident-des Veröffentlichung] des UBA 31&nbsp;July 2019.</ref>

== Organization ==
The authority has around 1,600 employees and institutions in Dessau-Roßlau, Berlin, Bad Elster and Langen. In addition, the UBA operates seven -distributed measurement stations for measuring the background concentrations of aerial ingredients: (Westerland, Zingst, Waldhof (Lüneburger Heide), Neuglobsow, Schmücke, Schauinsland, Zugspitze).

The UBA is divided into the following units:
* Central area (administrative control and service)
* Department I (environmental planning and sustainability strategies)
* Department II (health environmental protection, protection of ecosystems)
* Department III (sustainable production and products, circular economy)
* Department IV (chemical security)
* Department V (climate protection, energy, German emissions trade (DEECHT))
* Presidential area

The UBA has its headquarters in Dessau and at its branch offices in Berlin (Grunewald or City Campus by 2025/26 <ref>{{cite web|title=Standorte und Gebäude|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/das-uba/standorte-gebaeude|url-status=|format=|access-date=2020-07-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Systemadmin_Umwelt|date=2013-03-07|year=|language=de|pages=|quote=}}</ref> and Marienfelde), Langen and Bad Elster via an environmental management system (UMS) according to the specifications of the ECO Management and Audit Scheme.

== Jurisdiction ==
In accordance with the Basic Law, the responsibilities between the federal and state governments are distributed. In some areas, environmental protection is a federal dessert and in other areas he only has the authority of the framework legislation for the federal states. Therefore, some tasks of environmental protection are performed by the Federal Environment Agency by the state offices responsible for the environment in the federal states.

Federation reform I have partially led to a new distribution of the legislative skills between the federal and state governments in the environmental area. The most important changes are:
* Completion of the necessity clause in the areas of waste management, air pollution control and noise control and thus facilitated legislation of the federal government
* Nuclear law: now exclusive legislative competence of the federal government
* Hunting, nature conservation and landscape maintenance, spatial planning, water balance: abolition of the framework competence of the federal government, now competing legislative competence, but certain deviation rights of the federal states
* Environmentally relevant procedural law: Responsibility of the federal government with the consent of the Federal Council; If the consent is missing, the countries may differ.

The federal government now has the competence of issuing directly effective regulations in many areas of environmental law and thus implementing European law, for example, promptly and uniformly; In certain areas, the countries have deviation rights and sometimes also scope for design. The Federal Environment Agency is responsible for the implementation of the regulations. This includes the summary of the reports from the EU guidelines from the federal states and the forwarding to the responsible European authorities, such as the European Environment Agency.

== Further tasks ==
In addition to internal research, including in its own laboratories, the Federal Environment Agency also awards research orders to scientific institutions and institutes.

To support its work, the Federal Environment Agency uses various scientific commissions in which external experts are represented and the Federal Environment Agency is professionally advised. The commissions include:
* Commission Assessment of water -hazardous substances (KBWS)
* Commission soil protection
* Commission Human Biomonitoring
* Commission interior air hygiene (IRK)
* Commission Agriculture at the Federal Environment Agency (Klu)
* Swimming and swimming pool commission (BWK) <ref>[https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/service/begriffe-von-a-z/s/schwimm-und-badebeckenwasser.html#c1069 Informationsseite] des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit, dessen Fachkommission dieses beim Umweltbundesamt angesiedelte Gremium ist</ref>
* Drinking water commission
* Resource commission

Furthermore, the
* Specialist advisory board floor investigations

== Other ==
Federal Environmental Office in 2007 offers or promotes the Federal Environment Agency a {{CO2}} computer with which the personal carbon dioxide balance can be calculated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Umweltbundesamt: CO<sub>2</sub>-Rechner des Umweltbundesamtes|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://uba.co2-rechner.de/de_DE/living-hs#panel-calc|url-status=|format=|access-date=2021-07-07|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref> The computer offers an overview of the current personal {{CO2}} footprint, the central set screws (so-called "Big Points") and what contribution could be made for climate protection in the future.<ref>{{cite web|title=Klimaneutral leben – Persönliche CO<sub>2</sub>-Bilanz im Blick|periodical=www.umweltbundesamt.de|publisher=|url=https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/klimaneutral-leben-persoenliche-co2-bilanz-im-blick|url-status=|format=|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=[[Michael Bilharz]]|date=2019-09-19|year=|language=de|pages=|quote=}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/ Official English website]
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Revision as of 15:13, 3 January 2024

German government environmental agency
Umweltbundesamt
AbbreviationUBA
Formation1974
TypeGovernment agency
HeadquartersDessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt
Region served
Germany
Official language
German
LeaderDirk Messner
Staff1,600
Websiteumweltbundesamt.de

The Umweltbundesamt (German pronunciation: [ˈʊmvɛltˌbʊndəsʔamt] ⓘ; UBA, German: [uːbeːˈʔaː] ⓘ) is the environment agency of the German government. Together with the Bundesamt für Naturschutz ("federal agency for nature conservation"), the Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit ("federal office for the safety of nuclear waste management"), and the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz ("federal office for nuclear radiation protection"), it operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety.[1] The tasks of the office are primarily "the scientific support of the federal government (including the Federal Ministries for the Environment, Health, Economy and Climate Protection, Education and Research, Transport and Digital Infrastructure), the implementation of environmental laws (e.g., emission rights trade, admission of chemicals, medicinal and pesticides), and public information on environmental protection",[2] based on independent research. With around 1,600 employees, the agency is the largest environmental authority in Europe.[3][4]

History

In the early 1970s, the FDP politician and then-interior minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher called for the creation of an environmental authority to match similar bodies in the US and Sweden. Against resistance, especially by the Ministry of Health, which feared a loss of competence in the field of environmental protection, the Federal Office of Environmental Affairs was created in 1973, and on 22 July 1974, became the Federal Environment Agency, as an independent federal authority, based in Berlin.[5][6] The decision of the Bundestag, on 19 June 1974, which established West Berlin as the seat of the office, led to official protests by the GDR state department the following day.[7]

Presidency

The president of the Umweltbundesamt from 1974 to 1995 was the lawyer Heinrich von Lersner. He was succeeded by economist Andreas Troge, who led the agency until 2009, before ceding it to Jochen Flasbarth, who remained until 2013. Maria Krautzberger led the department between 2014 and 2020 and was succeeded by Dirk Messner[8]

References

  1. ^ "About us". 6 September 2013.
  2. ^ Das UBA – wer wir sind.
  3. ^ Markus Balser, Klaus Ott: Geheime Daten – Schon lange wurden Abgas-Manipulationen vermutet. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 21 April 2016, S. 19: "Das Umweltbundesamt mit 1500 Mitarbeitern gilt als die größte und mächtigste Umweltbehörde Europas."
  4. ^ Petra Pinzler, Martin Spiewak (1 November 2017), "Maria Krautzberger: "Die anderen haben aufgeholt"", Die Zeit, Hamburg, ISSN 0044-2070, retrieved 26 June 2019
  5. ^ "Hören Sie mal", Der Spiegel, 10 December, no. 14, p. 29, 1972
  6. ^ Link zum Gesetz
  7. ^ Chronik 1974. Deutsches Historisches Museum; retrieved 19 June 2009.
  8. ^ "rofessor Dirk Messner wird neuer Präsident des Umweltbundesamtes" [Professor Dirk Messner becomes the new President of the Federal Environment Agency]. umweltbundesamt.de (in German). 31 July 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
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