Environmental law covers a range of legal areas which are often of crucial importance for in-vestment projects in approval procedures under emissions control law and sectoral planning law or in other

On 18 October 2022, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) presented a draft bill for an Energy Efficiency Act...

Environmental protection has become an integral part of the world of work and is a core ESG topic. But is there such a thing as an in-house Environmental Protection Officer in Germany?

In December 2024, the European Union adopted the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR), which replaces the former Packaging Directive (94/62/EC).

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS") regulation in Germany is accelerating, with authorities increasingly relying on existing waste, water, and environmental criminal law, rather than waiting for new PFAS-specific statutes. Parallel EU measures are reinforcing this trend.

Regulations for packaging waste are set out in the German Packaging Act (Verpackungsgesetz). It contains the following main obligations...

On 16 December 2024, the Council of the European Union formally approved the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), following its adoption by the European Parliament on 24 April 2024.

This decision concerns an invention that relates to an electronic trading system.

The European Union's new Regulation on packaging and packaging waste has fundamentally transformed compliance requirements for companies placing packaged goods on the EU market, replacing decades-old directive-based frameworks with directly applicable product-law rules. While promising regulatory harmonization across member states, the reality presents a complex dual-compliance landscape where businesses must navigate both EU-wide packaging standards and diverging national implementation approaches.

The German Federal Constitutional Court Orders the German Legislator to Set Clear CO2 Emission Reduction Goals Beyond 2030.

The revised Environmental Crime Directive ("revised ECD") was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 30 April 2024 and comes into force on 20 May 2024.

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