All organs of the state are therefore responsible for the protection of the environment, especially with regard to later generations. Individual activities to preserve the environment are carried out on federal level as well as on state and local levels. These agencies have different tasks within the framework of environmentalism. Environmental legislation can be defined as the legislation necessary for the solving of the conflicts that occur during the preservation of the natural recourses of humanity. This work, however, has not yet been finished.
Environmental law is based on national as well as international law.
International law in this case consists of the legislation passed by the European Union and the general law of nations. The protection of nature and the environment has found legislative expression in the particular environmental administrative law, which had consisted of a collection of single laws. This administrative law can be divided into different categories that include the most important regulations. Following the requirements of environmental law, a number of categories of nature reservation have been defined. Areas of natural reservation are an important instrument to reach the goals of environmentalism.