Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection

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Senate
Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection - SenUVK -

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State level Berlin
position Supreme state authority
Headquarters Berlin
Authority management Regine Günther , Senator for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection
Web presence www.berlin.de/sen/uvk

The Berlin Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection (SenUVK for short) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the rank of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the highest state authority responsible for environmental , transport and climate protection policy in the German capital .

The current Senator for the Environment and Transport has been Regine Günther ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ) since December 2016 . It is supported by the two state secretaries Ingmar Streese (Alliance 90 / The Greens) for the area of ​​transport and Stefan Tidow (Alliance 90 / The Greens) for the areas of environment and climate protection.

The office building is located in the street Am Köllnischen Park 3 in the former administrative center of the State Insurance Institute (see article Köllnischer Park ).

Tasks and organization

The Senate Administration is responsible for questions of environmental and climate protection as well as for transport policy and is divided into six main departments and a cross-sectional department Central for Personnel and Finance.

Departments in the field of environment and climate protection

The State Secretary for Environment and Climate Protection (since December 2016: Stefan Tidow ) is responsible for the following departments:

Department Z

As a so-called cross-sectional department, Department Z (Central) is responsible for human resources, law, finance, organization, e-government, auditing and anti-corruption, public relations, international and EU affairs as well as liaising with the rest of the Senate and the House of Representatives .

Department I.

Department I is responsible for environmental policy, waste management, street cleaning, environmentally friendly procurement and pollution control.

Department II

Department II is responsible for integrative environmental protection. This includes in detail the competence for the nuclear supervision, the radiation measuring point, air quality measurements, water management, water law, geology, soil protection, soil, contaminated sites and groundwater remediation and for water protection.

Department III

Department III is responsible for nature conservation, landscape planning, forestry, open space planning and urban greenery. In the medium term, it is planned to merge the department with the previous special unit for climate protection in a joint department III.

Transport departments

The State Secretary for Transport is responsible for the following departments (since December 2018: Ingmar Streese ):

Department IV

Department IV is responsible for traffic. This includes in detail the Berlin state competence for fundamental matters of transport policy, traffic development planning, planning and design of streets and squares, bicycle traffic, pedestrian traffic, local public transport, commercial road passenger traffic, crossing law, road traffic and road law, federal highway law, the highest fines authority, shipping and ports, dangerous goods, Research on transport technology, the highest aviation and aviation safety authority, plan approval procedures for road and rail as well as the competence for technical railway supervision.

Department V

Department V is responsible for civil engineering . She is specifically responsible for property and project management in civil engineering, for awarding and purchasing as well as for financing and real estate.

Department VI

In Department VI Traffic Management , all positions and activities that regulate the flow of traffic on Berlin's main road network are bundled at a central point for the State of Berlin. It was built on January 1, 2020 and has taken over the tasks of the former subordinate authority Verkehrslenke Berlin (VLB) and the highest road traffic authority , which was previously located in Department IV.

Subordinate institutions and supervision

The following institutions are subordinate to the Senate Administration:

Furthermore, the advisory state commissioner for nature conservation and landscape management is affiliated to the Senate Administration as an institution that is not bound by instructions.

The State Office of Crematorium Berlin , the public-law corporations, Sewage Association of Passenger Shipping of Berlin , Water Association Pfefferluchgraben and Spree-Havel Association, as well as the Foundation for Nature Conservation Berlin as a foundation under public law, are subject to the supervision of the Senate Administration .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection , accessed on May 11, 2017
  2. ↑ a b organizational plan. Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, as of March 2, 2020, accessed on April 9, 2020 (PDF; 459 kB).
  3. ↑ Integration of the Berlin traffic management into the Senate administration responsible for traffic. Senate Chancellery Berlin, press release, January 14, 2020, accessed on April 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ Berlin Plant Protection Office on the website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on April 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Fischereiamt Berlin on the website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on April 9, 2020.
  6. ↑ Joint Upper Aviation Authority Berlin-Brandenburg on the website of the Brandenburg State Office for Building and Transport, accessed on April 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ The State Commissioner for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management on the website of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, accessed on April 9, 2020 (not bound by instructions in accordance with Section 40 of the Berlin Nature Conservation Act.)