Pharmaceutical advertising is regulated by the Act on Advertising in the Health Care System [HWG]. Courts regularly must decide which information about prescription drugs (Rx compounds) may also be made available to consumers and the means by which Rx compounds can be advertised

In response to the new duties contained within the new statutory framework for the treatment of residual waste, the city of Halle, like many other German municipalities, decided last year partly to privatize some of its responsibilities connected with the treatment of residual waste and to form a new company in this context, which it intends to manage with a strategic partner.