Umweltbundesamt

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German government environmental agency
Umweltbundesamt
AbbreviationUBA
Formation1974
TypeGovernment agency
HeadquartersDessau-Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt
Region served
Germany
Official language
German
LeaderDirk Messner
Staff
1600
Websitewww.umweltbundesamt.de

The Umweltbundesamt (German pronunciation: [ˈʊmvɛltˌbʊndəsʔamt] (listen); UBA, German: [uːbeːˈʔaː] (listen)) is the German Environment Agency. The headquarters are in Dessau-Roßlau. It was founded in Berlin in 1974 and is Germany's main environmental agency. In 2005, the agency moved to Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt. Together with the Bundesamt für Naturschutz, the Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit and the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, it operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety.[1] The UBA's spectrum of issues includes all aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment, such as:

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  1. ^ "About us". 6 September 2013.

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