Act on the establishment of a Federal Environment Agency.

The present Act lays down provisions relating to the establishment of a Federal Environment Agency. Article 1 establishes that an independent federal entity is set up to be named “Federal Environment Agency” to be part of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. The said Agency is responsible as follows: 1) to give scientific support to the Federal Ministry of the Environment in all matters concerning soil pollution, air protection, water resources and managements, waste disposal, health problems within the environment protection; 2) to build up and manage the information system on environment planning, as well as to keep a central data base concerning the environment, measure air pollution, to inform the public of matters concerning the environment. The text consists of 5 Articles (Articles 4 and 5 are deleted).