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Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, who again is represented by the President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, Wegelystraße 8, 10623 Berlin, Germany.

Responsible within the meaning of the State Media Treaty

Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management
(Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung, BASE)
President's Office
Christoph Hamann

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Disclaimer

Our aim is to facilitate public access to information provided by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management via the content of the www.base.bund.de website, and to provide a comprehensive picture of its activities, plans and projects. Particular attention is paid to the accuracy, completeness, currentness, comprehensibility and continuous availability of the information provided.

However, the above provision is subject to the following restrictions:

Third-party content

The direct or indirect references and links to content of third-party websites (hereinafter "third-party content") available on these pages were created to the best of our knowledge and with the utmost accuracy, and merely provide access to such sites. BASE has paid special attention to the trustworthiness of such third-party providers as well as to the accuracy and legality of such "third-party content".

However, as the content of internet pages may be altered at any time, it is neither possible to continuously verify such “third-party content” in each case, nor is it reasonable as long as there is no concrete evidence of infringements. BASE

• does expressly not adopt " third-party content" as its own,
• does not have any influence on the current and future design and contents of the linked pages and
• distances itself expressly from any "third-party content" which might be relevant with respect to criminal law or liability law, or that transgress standards of public decency.

In the event that infringements are suspected, the relevant “third-party content” shall be examined immediately. In the event that infringements are identified, such external links shall be deleted immediately. Solely the provider of the page referred to shall be liable for damage resulting from the usage or non-usage of "third-party content".

Own content

As far as the contents provided on these pages contain legal provisions, official notices, recommendations, or other types of advice, such information was created to the best of our knowledge and with the utmost accuracy. In case of discrepancies, however, solely the current official version as published in the official publication medium shall apply. Possible legal references, recommendations, and other types of information are not binding; BASE does not provide legal advice.

The following limitation of liability shall apply to the information provided:

• Users may access and use these pages at their own risk. BASE shall not be liable for the accuracy, completeness, currentness, comprehensibility and continuous availability of the contents provided. Bylined articles express the author’s opinion, and are not necessarily in line with the publisher’s opinion.
• Insofar as legally permissible, BASE shall not be liable for material or immaterial damage resulting from the usage or non-usage of information offered and/or from the usage of incorrect, incomplete, out of date and/or incomprehensible information. BASE expressly reserves the right to alter, supplement or delete parts of these pages or the entire websites without prior notice, or to discontinue the publication temporarily or permanently.
• The mere usage of these pages shall not constitute a contractual relationship between BASE and the user. Insofar as legally permissible, the publisher shall not be liable for possible damage caused by computer viruses contained in the data accessed on or downloaded from these pages or by the installation or usage of software.

Copyright

BASE strives to respect the copyright to any images, audio and video clips and texts used in all publications, to use images, audio and video clips and texts created by BASE itself, or to use licence-free images, audio and video clips and texts.

The contents published on these pages shall be subject to German copyright and ancillary copyright law. Brand labels and trademarks possibly registered by third parties shall be subject to the provisions of the relevant trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owner. The mere mention of a trademark does not imply that such trademark is not subject to third parties’ rights.

If not stated otherwise, BASE shall be the holder of the copyright to texts, pictures, images, and other contents. BASE also uses licence-free pictures and images from the Pixabay image data-base that have been published under Creative Commons CCO in the public domain.

Any usage not admitted by German copyright and ancillary copyright law or by the relevant trademark law shall only be permissible if BASE or the holder of the rights has expressly given its prior written consent. This applies in particular to any duplication, adaptation, translation, saving, processing, replay of contents in databases or other electronic media and systems as well as to electronic usage. The unauthorised usage of individual contents or complete pages is not permitted and shall be subject to legal action.

The presentation of these pages in external frames (part of an HTML page) is only permitted with explicit prior written consent.

Legal validity of this disclaimer

If parts or particular wordings of this text should cease in part or in whole to correspond to applicable law, the contents and the validity of the other parts of this document shall not be affected.

The Federal Office on social media

This legal notice also applies to the presence of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management in the social networks of Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, XING, Kununu and Youtube.

Please note that the Federal Office has no influence on the terms of use of the social networks and the services they offer, or the collection of data and its further use. We shall treat your data with the utmost care, but assume no liability for the conduct of the operators of the social networks and third parties.

You are welcome to send suggestions and feedback to socialmedia@base.bund.de.

Note on granting electronic access pursuant to § 3a para. 1 Administrative Procedure Act

Regarding the transmission of electronic documents, even if they bear a qualified electronic signature, the access to this federal authority's electronic communication is only declared for the email address info@base.bund.de pursuant to § 3a para. 1 Administrative Procedure Act.