CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
-1. Environmental Management
-2. Towards Sustainable Development
-3. International Co-operation
PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
1. Air Management
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
2. Water Management
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Toxic contaminants in rivers
--2.2 Expenditure on waste water management
--2.3 Increased flood occurrence and damage
3. Waste Management 
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Evolution of waste management legislation: towards extended producer responsibility
--2.2 Achieving high waste recovery and material recycling rates
--2.3 Waste disposal capacity: a difficult situation
--2.4 Applying the principle of extended producer responsibility: packaging waste
--2.5 Transfrontier movements of waste
4. Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 The state of biodiversity
--2.2 Environmental measures in agriculture
--2.3 International agreements
--2.4 Sustainable forestry
PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
5. The Environmental-Economic Interface
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Economic context
--2.2 Institutional context and environmental administration
--2.3 The Environment Barometer
--2.4 Recent legislation and the Environmental Code
--2.5 Examples of voluntary agreements
6. The Environmental-Social Interface 
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Social context
--2.2 Environmental disparities and health
--2.3 Environmental protection and employment
--2.4 Environmental concerns and willingness to pay
--2.5 Environmental NGOs
7. The New Länder
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Rehabilitation of contaminated sites
--2.2 Environmental perceptions, information and participation
2.3 Transfers to the New Länder and investment priorities
PART III. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS
8. International Co-operation
-1. Evaluation of Performance
-2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Co-operation with Poland and the Czech Republic
--2.2 Protection of the Rhine
--2.3 Protection of the North Sea and Baltic Sea
--2.4 Aid
9. Climate Protection
-1. Evaluation of Performance
2. Focus on Selected Topics
--2.1 Energy supply and intensity
--2.2 Climate change policy
ANNEXES
-I.A Selected Environmental Data
-I.B Selected Economic Data
-I.C Selected Social Data
-II.A Selected Multilateral Agreements (worldwide)
-II.B Selected Multilateral Agreements (regional)
-III. Chronology of Selected Environmental Events (1990-2000)
-IV. The physical context