The Yearbook Ecology will be published in the end of September 2003. Ecologic is one of the institutes supporting this yearbook. Like its predecessors, the Yearbook Ecology 2004 will present contributions on ecology that inform about trends in environmental pollution, analyze and criticize governmental environmental policy, document historical environmental events and draft visions of a sustainable world.

The interdisciplinary team of lawyers and economists, headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Juliane Kokott and consisting of Dr. Axel Klaphake, Dr. Simon Marr, Dr. Peter Beyer and Ute Beckert, recently finalized its study on international, European and national liability systems in relation to ecological damages, i.e. damages to water, soil and biodiversity. The study was commissioned by the German Federal Environmental Agency.

The workshop focussed on the aspects that are to be covered in the report 2005 to the European Commission. Approximately 150 German actors of water resource management discussed results, problems and new approaches and the actual state of affairs with regards to the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive.

The book "Risks of Mobile Telecommunication" was published in the series "Studies of the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Parliament". Substantial parts of the book are based on a study conducted by Ecologic. The publication presents an analysis of the scientific and public discourse on the health risks of mobile phones and transmitters. Furthermore, the book gives an overview of the regulatory framework conditions of mobile telecommunication.

As part of implementing the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC-Directive), the Best Available Techniques (BAT) for waste treatment industries were identified in a European-wide process and described in the BAT REFerence document (BREF) "waste treatment industries".

The workshop aims at continuing and intensifying the process of an international exchange of experiences with the on-going activities which was started by a workshop in September 2001 in Bruges. It will focus on the exchange of information regarding experiences in the field of air pollution abatement measures - both their planning (drawing up action plans according to art. 7 (3) and preparation of plans or programmes according to art. 8 (3) of the Framework Directive) and their implementation. The workshop will serve as a forum for exchanging experiences on the national implementation of the EU air quality directives with emphasis on air pollution abatement measures.

Simon Marr and Sebastian Oberthür have together with Christoph Bail co-authored a chapter which has been published in one of the leading German handbooks on European and German environmental law. The chapter, entitled "Climate protection and law", appears in the Handbuch zum europäischen und deutschen Umweltrecht, which is edited by Hans-Werner Rengeling.

Brackemann, Holger; Hans-Peter Ewens; Eduard Interwies et. al. 2002: "Die Wirtschaftliche Analyse nach EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (Teil I)". Wasser und Abfall, Jg. 2002, Nr. 3, 38-43.

Brauch, Hans Günther; Alexander Carius, Sebastian Oberthür et al. 2002: Evaluierung und Fortentwicklung strategischer und konzeptioneller Initiativen zu Umwelt und Sicherheit. Teil 1. Ecologic, Berlin.

Brauch, Hans Günther; Alexander Carius, Sebastian Oberthür et al. 2002: Evaluierung und Fortentwicklung strategischer und konzeptioneller Initiativen zu Umwelt und Sicherheit. Teil 3. Ecologic, Berlin.

Brauch, Hans Günther; Alexander Carius, Sebastian Oberthür et al. 2002: Evaluierung und Fortentwicklung strategischer und konzeptioneller Initiativen zu Umwelt und Sicherheit. Teil 2. Ecologic, Berlin.

On 23rd October 2001 the European Commission presented the proposal for a directive establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community. The proposal plans a collective European approach to trading with emission allowances, which should come into effect by 2005. The objective of this workshop, that took place one year after the publication of the proposal, was to gain an overall view of the discussion process and to draw up a first summary.