The focus is on legal,
financially, acceptable and sustainable
solutions:
IMMISSION PROTECTION
- Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz – (BimSchG – German federal immission control act) and its regulations
- 2010/75/EU Directive on industrial emissions
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
- Arbeitsschutzgesetz – ArbSchG (Occupational safety and health act) and its regulations
- Asbestos directive, technical rules, rules published by professional associations
TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
- ADR/RID road and rail
- IMDG/IMO sea freight
- Hazardous materials transport regulation for road and railroad transport as well as inland water transportation (GGVSEB)
WASTE
- Basler Übereinkommen über die Kontrolle der grenzüberschreitenden Verbringung gefährlicher Abfälle und ihrer Entsorgung
- 2008/98/EG “Abfallrahmenrichtlinie”
- Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste (EG)1013/2006 VO über die Verbringung von Abfällen
- KrWG Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz (German Recycling Act)
RAW MATERIALS AND CHEMICALS
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, OECD, issue date 2011.
- Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- (EU) 2017/821 laying down supply chain due diligence obligations for Union importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas
- Regulation (EU) No. 2017/852 on mercury
- Regulation (EU) No. 649/2012 concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals
- Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)