| BNatSchG | Federal Nature Conservation Act |
| CADA | Commission on Access to Administrative Documents |
| CEE | Central and Eastern Europe |
| CES | Conselho Econumico e Social |
| CODA | Coordinating Committee of Environmental Defence Groups |
| CSN | Nuclear Safety Council — Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear Spain |
| DSCN | The Danish Society for the Conservation of Nature |
| EEA | European Environmental Area |
| EEB | European Environmental Bureau |
| EIA | Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment |
| EISs | Environmental Impact Statements |
| ENFO | Environmental Information Service of the Department of the Environment, Ireland |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EU | European Union |
| EWR | European Economic Area |
| GEOTA | Grupo de Estudos do Ordenamento do Territurio e Ambiente |
| GMOs | Genetically Modified Organisms |
| IDUR | Information Service for Environmental Law |
| IPAMB | Institute of Environmental Promotion (Instituto Nacional para a Protectio do Ambiente) |
| IPC | Integrated pollution control |
| KGV | Point of coordination on information of procedures of authorization of the Oeko-Institut, Darmstadt |
| NIS | Newly Independent States |
| NGO | Nongovernmental Organization |
| OG | Organization Act |
| PRTR | Pollutant Release and Transfer Register |
| REC | The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe |
| SRU | German Council of Environmental Advisors |
| TRI | Toxins Release Inventory |
| UDK | Environmental Data Catalogue |
| UIG | Federal Law on Environmental Information |
| UN ECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| USG | Federal Law Relating to the Protection of the Environment (Bundesgesetz ueber den Umweltschutz, Switzerland) |
| VwVfG | Administrative Procedures Law |
| WBGU | German Advisory Council on Global Change |