!!!Umweltministerium

Environmental Affairs, Ministry for, 1972-1987 Federal Ministry of 
Health and Environmental Protection, 1987-1994 Federal Ministry of 
Environmental Affairs, Youth and the Family, 1995-1996 Federal 
Ministry for Environmental Affairs, 1996-2000 renamed Federal Ministry 
of Environmental Affairs, Youth and the Family. Since 2000 
environmental issues have been within the remit of the Federal 
Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water 
Management ( Ministry of Agriculture) and youth and family matters 
fall within the competence of the Federal Ministry for Social Security 
and Generations ( Ministry of Social Affairs).

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The Ministry for Environmental Affairs was especially responsible for 
the following issues: general environmental policy, co-ordination in 
all fields of environmental protection, waste management, pollution 
control, affairs of the environmental ombudsman's office, 
environmental impact assessment, measuring, evaluation and 
documentation of measured values in the field of environmental 
protection, affairs concerning the protection of nature and the 
countryside, and of natural caves. The following institutions provided 
advisory support to the Ministry for Environmental Affairs: 
Altlastensanierungskommission/Commission for the Reclamation of 
Residual Contaminants, Wissenschaftlicher Rat fuer Abfallwirtschaft 
und Altlastensanierung/Scientific Council for Waste Management and the 
Reclamation of Residual Contaminants, Chemikalienkommission/Commission 
for Chemical Substances, Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss der 
Chemikalienkommission/Scientific Committee of the Commission for 
Chemical Substances, Nationalpark-Beirat/National Park Advisory Board. 
The Vienna Umweltbundesamt (Federal Office for Environmental Affairs) 
with branch offices in Salzburg and Klagenfurt was responsible to the 
Ministry for Environmental Affairs.

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From 1996-2000 the Ministry for Environmental Affairs also had the 
following competences: general family policy including its 
co-ordination and family promotion, affairs regarding the promotion of 
family counselling, equalisation of family burdens, maternity and 
infant welfare, general population policy, youth welfare, 
extracurricular education for young people and matters of family 
policy in the fields of housing, public duties, health care and health 
education, social insurance, and public education. An Advisory Board 
for Family Policy was also established.


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