The Federal Environment Ministry

Berlin office

How to get there [/english/the_ministry/addresses/doc/print/42823.php]

Public transport Berlin:

Station stop: Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
City railway:S1, S2
Underground: U2
Bus: 200, M41, M48, M85
Timetable: www.bvg.de/en [http://www.bvg.de/en].

Bonn Office

Postal address:

Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety
Post box 12 06 29
53048 Bonn
Germany

Delivery address:

Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
(via Heinrich-von-Stephan-Straße)
53175 Bonn

Visitors' address:

Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn

How to get there [/english/the_ministry/addresses/doc/print/45697.php]

Public transport Bonn:

Station stop: Robert-Schuman-Platz
City railway: 66, 68
Bus: 614, 623
Timetable: www.stadtwerke-bonn.de [http://en.swb-busundbahn.de/bus-bahn_549.html].

General Information

Until 1986 environmental matters were dealt with by three different ministries within the Federal Government: the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health. On 6 June 1986 the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety was established. Since then it has been responsible within the Federal Government for (lead-managing) national environmental policy.

The Ministry, which under a resolution of the German Bundestag has its principal office in Bonn, has some 830 employees in six departments there and at its second office in Berlin.

The Federal Environment Ministry's sphere of responsibility also embraces three federal agencies with a combined total of more than 1,880 employees: the Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) and the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz). The ministry also receives advice in the form of statements and expert opinions from several independent expert bodies. The principal advisory bodies are the Council of Environmental Advisors (Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen) and the Advisory Council on Global Change (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Umweltveränderungen).