Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection

Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection - StMUV -
State level	Free State of Bavaria
position	Supreme state authority
founding	December 8, 1970
Headquarters	Munich
Authority management	Minister of State Thorsten Glauber
Budget volume	EUR 1.028 billion (2020)
Web presence	www.stmuv.bayern.de

Service building of the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment

The Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection was created on December 8, 1970 as the Ministry of the Environment of the Free State of Bavaria with its seat on Rosenkavalierplatz in Munich . This made it the first environment ministry in the world.

The ministry is headed by a minister of state, since November 12, 2018 Thorsten Glauber (Free Voters). The State Ministry has not had a State Secretary since 2013; the Minister's representative is Ministerial Director Christian Barth.

history

See also : List of Bavarian State Ministers for the Environment

The Ministry was founded in 1970 as the State Ministry for State Development and Environmental Issues . In 2007 it was expanded to become the State Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection , but gave up the “Consumer Protection” area in 2008. In 2014, the “Health” division was spun off as an independent State Ministry for Health and Care , since then it has existed under its current responsibility and name.

tasks

The design of the ministry changed over time, with health and consumer protection added in 2003. In 2008 consumer protection was transferred to the State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection . In 2013, responsibility for health was transferred to the State Ministry of Health and Nursing , and at the same time the ministry was reassigned consumer protection issues.

environmental Protection

The work of the ministry focuses on

• Nature conservation and landscape management : Here, the ministry acts as the highest nature conservation authority to ensure biodiversity and the diversity of habitats as well as the suitability of the landscape for recreation and tourism.
• Expansion of ecological energy generation and decentralized energy supply .
• Water management and flood protection : Water should be protected as a vital basis for animals, plants and people. At the same time, people should be protected from the dangers of water.
• Soil protection and contaminated sites : prevention or reduction of soil pollution , land use and erosion as well as the remediation of contaminated sites.
• Air pollution control and climate protection in Bavaria: To improve the purity of the air and to promote measures to reduce carbon dioxide production
• Waste management : change from waste disposal to integrated waste management
• Noise protection in Bavaria
• Promotion of bio and genetic engineering in Bavaria

Reactor safety and radiation protection

The ministry is the nuclear licensing and supervisory authority for nuclear facilities in Bavaria. Monitoring the safety of nuclear power plants and controlling radioactivity in the environment is an important task. The Ministry is also responsible for monitoring the disposal of radioactive waste from medicine, research and industry.

Further responsibilities

In addition, animal welfare is one of the duties of the ministry.

organization

The Ministry is the superior body for the higher nature conservation authorities of the seven Bavarian governments and the 96 lower nature conservation authorities in rural districts and urban districts. The Ministry is also responsible for the State Office for the Environment (LfU) and the Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL).

In the area of ​​water management, the ministry is the superior body for the 17 water management offices and the state office for the environment, in 7 governments and in 96 districts and urban districts.

The BayernNetz Natur covers around a third of the country's area. There are two national parks, 584 nature reserves, 701 landscape reserves and 16 nature parks.

Web links

• Ministry website
• BayernNetz Natur
• Eco-energy Bavaria
• Energy Atlas Bavaria
• Water management in Bavaria
• Health protection in Bavaria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.stmuv.bayern.de/ministerium/staatsminister/index.htm
2. ↑ stmfh.bayern.de: https://www.stmfh.bayern.de/haushalt/staatshaushalt_2019/haushaltsplan/. Retrieved June 26, 2020 . 
3. ^ The Bavarian Ministry of Life. Retrieved September 14, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Ökoenergie Bayern ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Energy Atlas Bavaria . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '10.4 "  N , 11 ° 37' 7.1"  E