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The UBA's environmental guidelines
Last changed: 08/10/2010
(resolved by the Agency's management on 12.09.2000,
Last update: 11.10.2006)
Preamble
In the Federal Environment Agency mission statement its staff's
objectives are to:
- protect and maintain natural resources,
- promote sustainable development and
- to firmly root environmental protection as a matter of course
in everyone's thinking and actions.
We pursue these goals especially within our Agency and resolutely
practice what we recommend to others for the promotion of long-term,
environmentally compatible development. We implement an environmental
management system which our environmental guidelines provide
the basis for.
How we see ourselves
- It is especially in the fulfillment of its professional tasks
that the Federal Environment Agency contributes to environmental
protection. We adhere to the environmental protection legislation
in force and commit ourselves beyond that to continuous improvement
of environmental protection in our own activities by setting concrete
environmental targets, and we regularly check our performance.
When doing so, we take the possibly undesired environmental impacts
of our products and services into consideration.
- The Agency promotes a sense of responsibility and the active
involvement of all its staff in efforts to protect the environment
and health.
To reduce negative environmental impacts
- In procurement, we prefer the most environmentally compatible
products in light of their manufacture, use, and disposal.
- We use energy, water, materials, and space efficiently and in
an environmentally compatible fashion.
- We make efforts to avoid waste and where waste is unavoidable,
it is recycled or disposed of in an environmentally compatible
way.
- Our business trips are conducted in as an environmentally compatible
manner as possible. We recommend our visitors to use public transport.
- We involve our contractors in our activities to protect the
environment and health.
To promote transparency
- We regularly conduct in-house environmental checks, make their
results public, and the derived measures are stated in an environmental
impact report which then exposes us to public discussion.
