Environment Agency
Environment agency and environmental authority are common names for authorities entrusted with the enforcement of environmental law . In Germany, they are often specialist departments in the administrations of rural districts and urban cities as well as in the federal states' environment ministries. In this function, they usually perform the tasks of the nature conservation authority , the water authority and immission control , waste and soil protection law . State environmental agencies with the function of the Upper Environmental Protection Agency, there are now in many states as state office .
In the course of the development of environmental protection and administrative reforms , at the end of the 20th century there was a merger with specialist authorities that had similar tasks: The Federal Environment Agency in Germany was founded in 1974. After that, around 1990 in Lower Saxony , for example, the state offices for waste and water management emerged from the water management offices . In Hesse there State environmental agencies as a means authorities in the field of environmental legislation, that the respective Regierungspräsidien are assigned. With the change in the structure of the authorities, the state environmental offices in North Rhine-Westphalia were dissolved in 2007 and assigned to the district governments . Since then there have been specialist departments for nature and landscape protection (51), waste management (52), immission control (53) and water management (54) in the respective departments 5 with departments 51 to 54, each including plant-related environmental protection. The responsibility of the respective authority is regulated in the ordinance on environmental protection in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Municipal environmental agencies
In the city of Frankfurt am Main, for example, the environmental agency's fields of activity are as follows:
- Landscape planning and green space
- Waste disposal and recycling
- Environmental precaution
- Soil protection and water protection
- Nature conservation and tree protection
- Organic farming
- Immission control
- Chimney sweeps
- Animal welfare and species protection
- Climate protection
- Environmental information
The city administration of Emden describes the tasks of the Environment Specialist Service as follows: “The general goal of environmental protection is to avoid or eliminate adverse effects on the environment. Therefore the defense, limitation and elimination of harmful effects on humans, animals and plants as well as water, air and soil are the main tasks of official environmental protection. The framework is set by the requirements of water, nature conservation, soil protection, dyke, waste and pollution control law. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Section 56: Laws and Ordinances | State law NRW. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Chimney sweeps on frankfurt.de
- ↑ https://www.emden.de/rathaus/verwaltung/fb-300-stadtentwicklung-und-wirtschaftsfoerderung/fd-362-umwelt