The Ecologic Legal team has carried out or contributed to research projects in many fields of environmental law and policy sponsored by international and national institutions. To this end, Ecologic Legal has worked with partners in most European and several non-European countries. This site contains an overview of many of these projects. Further information on each of them may be obtained by clicking on the link.
Current Projects
Legal and technical Consultation in connection with renewable energies
Sponsor: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Duration: 01.06.2008 until 31.07.2010
Project number: 886-04
Global Environmental Governance and International Environmental Regimes
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: 01.10.2006 until 30.09.2009
Project number: 1811-02
Projects completed in 2009
Legal expertise on the participation of Turkey in the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol
Sponsor: GFA ENVEST GmbH
Co-financing: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.04.2009 until 31.05.2009
Project number: 2307
A Climate Protection Law for Germany
Sponsor: WWF Germany
Duration: 19.01.2009 until 03.04.2009
Project number: 2301
Implementation of waste-related EU Directives
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 12.11.2008 until 12.03.2009
Project number: 1917
Trade and Climate Change
Sponsor: Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
Duration: 11.01.2008 until 31.01.2009
Project number: 221-05
Pollutant and Transfer Register (PRTR) in Germany
Sponsor: German Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.12.2001 until 31.07.2009
Project number: 1822-01/1822-02
Transatlantic Policy Options for Supporting Adaptations in the Marine Arctic (Arctic TRANSFORM)
Sponsor: European Commission, DG External Relations
Duration: 01.01.2008 until 30.06.2009
Project number: 1913
Priority substances and the Water Framework Directive
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.12.03 until 30.09.05 and 01.02.2007 until 31.01.2009
Project number: 964
Legal Aspects of Climate Protection
Sponsor:: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.01.2008 until 31.01.2009
Project number: 1995
Projects completed in 2008
Design of International Climate Policy
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.04.2007 until 31.12.2008
Project number: 1897-02
Inclusion of aviation in EU-emissions trading
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 12.10.2007 until 20.12.2008
Project number: 1908
Evaluation of the EU policy on protected geographical indications
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Duration: 15.10.2007 until 30.09.2008
Project number:1836
Legal issues and challenges in Trade and Competitiveness Post 2012
Sponsor: European Parliament
Duration: 16.05.2008 until 01.06.2008
Project number: 290-01
Legal aspects of the implementation of the emissions trading scheme
Sponsor: German Fedral Environmental Agency
Duration: 01.10.2006 until 31.03.2008
Project number: 1994
Projects completed in 2007
Legal implementation of the emissions trading
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.10.2006 until 31.12.2007
Project number: 1994
Legal status of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Germany
Sponsor: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Duration: 27.09.2007 until 17.12.2007
Project number: 1907
CSD 15 and UNEP - Supporting the German EU Presidency
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.11.2006 until 30.09.2007
Project number: 881
Climate change and water management - adaptation strategies for Europe
Sponsor: German Federal Environment Agency
Duration: 13.02.2006 until 31.07.2007
Project number: 1873
Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) - Legal Questions
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.07.05 until 30.06.07
Project number: 886-02
Legislative Reform of the German Energy Law
Sponsor: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.04.04 until 30.4.07
Project number: 1844
Climate Protection Programme for Developing Countries (CaPP)
Sponsor: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH (GTZ)
Duration: 01.08.2006 until 31.03.2007
Project number: 885
Ninth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.08.2006 until 28.02.2007
Project number: 998
Projects completed in 2006
Institutional Design of International Climate Policy
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 15.05.2005 until 31.12.2006
Project number: 1897
IPPC Directive - technical review
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 15.12.05 until 30.11.06
Project number: 1750-7
Vulnerability and Distribution of Native Bird Species in Germany
Sponsor: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Duration: 12.07.2006 until 30.11.2006
Project number: 1906
Waste Management and Climate Change
Duration: 04.08.2006 until 21.11.2006
Project number: 201-38
Project: Legislative Reforms of the German energy law
Sponsor: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Duration: 01.04.04 until 31.03.06
Project number: 1844
Trade, intellectual property rights and sustainable development (IPDEV)
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Research
Duration: 01.01.05 until 31.10.06
Project number: 1802
Promoting Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China
Sponsor: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Duration: 01.06.2006 until 15.10.2006
Project number: 201-31
Furthering Compliance Assistance and Improvement of the Environmental Performance of SME
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 10.01.2006 until 30.06.2006
Project number: 1864
EU Enlargement: A Success Story?
Duration: 01.03.2006 until 31.05.2006
Project number: 221-02
Urban environment and environmental technologies
Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria
Duration: 01.01.2006 until 31.05.2006
Project number: 201-18
Differentiated integration in the European environmental and energy policy
Sponsor: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Duration: 15.02.2006 until 26.05.2006
Project number: 266-05
Implementation of Article 12 of the Habitats Directive
Sponsor: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.10.05 until 31.03.06
Project number: 1832
Legal implementation of the European directive on emissions trading
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.01.05 until 31.03.06
Project number: 1993
Projects completed in 2005
Public procurement and forest certification
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 01.11.04 until 30.11.05
Project number: 933
Concerted Action on Trade + Environment (CAT+E)
Co-coordinating the Concerted Action on Trade and Environment, funded by the European Commission, to support the creation of research networks within Europe,
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Research
Duration: 01.12.02 until 30.11.05
Project number: 1800
Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) - Register of installations
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Duration: 01.09.04 until 31.08.05
Project number: 886-01
Legal Implementation of User Charges for Global Environmental Assets
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 10.11.04 until 31.07.05
Project number: 1886
Preparation of a Pollutant and Transfer Register in Germany
Sponsor: State Institute for Environmental Protection of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg
Duration: 01.12.01 until 31.07.05
Project number: 1822 Towards a Stronger System of International Environmental Governance
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 07.12.04 until 20.07.05
Project number: 987
Soil Protection and Renewable Resources
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 27.05.05 until 31.07.05
Project number: 201-08
Implementation and Development of International Environmental Law
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 12.06.2003 until 31.05.2005
Project number: 1912
Analysis in relation to FSC forest certification and timber procurement
Sponsor: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Duration: 26.05.03 bis 26.05.05
Project number: 934
Waste reduction and recycling through extended producer responsibility
Sponsor: Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry Environment and Water Management
Duration: 23.08.04 until 28.02.05
Project number: 1819
Specific Needs of Developing Countries - Design Option for a UNEO
Sponsor: German Federal Foreign Office (AA)
Duration: 01.12.04 until 31.01.05
Project number: 221-01
Earlier projects
Environmental
Regulatory Law
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Environment
Duration: 23.01.04 until 19.09.04
Project number: 919
Preparation
of a Handbook on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Sponsor: United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change
Duration: 15.01.04 bis 15.09.04
Project number: 1849
UNEP
Round Table
Sponsor: Federal Ministry
for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 09.12.03 bis 17.02.04
Project number: 1810
Consultancy
for the European Parliament's Environment Committee
Sponsor: European Parliament (EP)
Duration: 01.09.03 until 01.09.04
Project number: 849
National
Allocation Plan for the European Emissions Trading System
Sponsor:
German Federal Environmental Agency
Duration: 01.07.03 until 31.03.04
Project number: 1896
Drawing
up a brochure about citizen rights under the Aarhus Convention
Sponsor: German Federal
Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.01.03 until 01.06.03
Project number: 1881
EC
external competences
The EC's competencies and obligations for the negotiation, conclusion
and implementation of decisions taking into account agreements protecting
the marine environment
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.11.02 until 31.05.03
Project number: 1911
The
precautionary principle in the European environmental, health and
food safety policy
Sponsor: Institut du développement durable
et des relations internationales (IDDRI)
Duration: 01.11.02 until 31.03.04
Project number: 929
Consumer
Interests and Sustainable Development in International Law
Sponsor: Federation of German Consumer Organisations
Duration: 01.11.02 until 15.10.03
Project number: 1885
Legal
framework for a national Emissions Trading Scheme
Development of a national Emissions Trading Scheme and Legal framework
for a national Emissions Trading Scheme
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.09.02 until 30.04.03 and 01.06.03
until 30.11.04
Project numbers: 1969, 1893
Competition
Rules in the Water Sector
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Competition
Duration: 01.05.02 until 31.12.02
Project number: 1974
Access
to Genetic Resources
Supporting the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation in
preparing its negotiating position on access to genetic resources
Sponsor: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
(BfN)
Duration: 01.10.01 until 01.02.02
Project number: 1835
Environmental
liability
Environmental liability in international, European and national
regimes against the background of the Whitebook on Environmental
Liability of the European Commission
Sponsor: German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA)
Duration: 01.07.01 until 30.06.02
Project number: 1910
Trading
away the last ancient forests
Sponsor: Greenpeace Germany
Duration: 20.06.01 until 01.04.02
Project number: 939
SUSTRA
Convening an international workshop on the architecture of the global
system of governance on trade and sustainable development for an
EC-funded project on Trade, Societies and Sustainable Development
Sponsor: European Commission, DG Research, Development
Technology and Innovation, DG Trade
Duration: 01.04.01 until 31.12.04
Project number: 1990
Kyoto
Mechanisms and Compliance
Supporting the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the international negotiations-process
for the further development of the Kyoto Protocol, in particular
with regard to the development of a system for compliancy-control
Sponsor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Duration: 01.02.01 - 01.06.02
Project number: 1898
Baltic
States' Environmental Legislation in the Context of European Integration
1st Baltic Environmental Lawyers Round Table
Sponsor: Baltic Environment Forum (BEF)
Duration: 01.08.98 until 30.11.98
Project number: 226-3
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