Umweltbundesamt
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The Umweltbundesamt (UBA) 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 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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- ^ "About us". 6 September 2013.
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