Dirk Jepsen
- 1983-1989: Studies of industrial engineering in Hamburg
- 1989-1990: Cooperation in regional economic studies at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
- 1990-1992: Employee of the Association for technological consulting and system development in Hamburg
- 1993-1994: Consultation of enterprises and elaboration of expertise as free-lance engineer in the fields of company related environmental protection, regional economy and organisational development
- Since 1994 employee, since 1999 associate, since 2002 executive director of Ökopol
Main focus of work
(Executive director) Chemicals Policy, Environmental Policy, Environmentally Sound Products and Product Systems, Environmental Management
Chemicals Policy
- Consulting of public authorities, associations and companies on the implementation of European chemicals legislation
Environmentally Sound Products and Product Systems
- Ecodesign Directive and related implementing measures, energy labelling, voluntary environmental agreements, life cycle assessment, development and assessment of ecolabels, energy and resource efficiency
Environmental Policy
- Environmental policy instruments and steering, legal aspects of policy instruments, efficiency and sufficiency
Environmental Management
- Implementation of environmental management systems (ÖKOPROFIT)
Ausgewählte Referenzen
| Title | Client, Project leader, Project partner | Duration |
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Chemicals policy |
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| EC-GROW/2024/OP/0038 - Study on EU Substitution Centre(s) - Providing support to businesses to substitute their use of hazardous chemicals through collaboration, innovation, research and direct assistance LOT 3 - Specific pilot - Providing support to a project to promote substitution of chromium(VI) substances in hard chrome plating |
European Commission, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROWTH), Brussels (BE) Project partner: Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA), Norwich (UK) |
2025 – 2027 |
| In-depth assessments of the implementability of the DNSH criteria in the EU Taxonomy. (Framework contract ENV.01/FRA/2023/0006) |
European Commission, DG Environment, Brussels (BE) Project leader: RPA Europe SRL, Milan (IT) Project partner: KPMG, London (UK); Logika Group, Bristol (UK); Metroeconomica, Bizkaia (ESP); Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2025 – 2026 |
| REACH Congress 2024 - Support for the UBA and the BMUV in organising the 6th REACH Congress (FKZ: 3724 65 704 0) |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2024 – 2025 |
| Alternatives of skin sensitising substances in consumer mixtures. Ref.: 214-02.05-20.0009-23-I-C |
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment Risikobewertung (BfR), Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: Risk & Policy Analysts Ltd (RPA), Loddon (UK); RPA Europe Prague s.r.o., Prag (CZ); RPA Europe SRL, Milan (IT) |
2023 – 2025 |
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Sustainability alive! Transforming the chemicals industry with conceptional approaches to assess chemicals along their lifecycle Chemikalien (FKZ: 3722 65 404 0) Short description |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: Frank Hintsch IT Consulting, Hamburg (DE); Öko-Institut e.V., Freiburg (DE) |
2022 – 2025 |
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Continuation of the NanoDialogue of the German Government 2019 - 2022 (workshop series)
(FKZ UM 19 66 0010, Vergabenr.: 1148/2019) Short description |
Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2019 – 2023 |
| REACH-Hamburg, organisation of a competence and promotion network for REACH in Hamburg |
Several business companies of Hamburg Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
since 2011 |
Resources and Recycling Economy |
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| Consulting and potential analysis to promote reusable packaging in out-of-home sales in the state capital of Kiel |
Umweltschutzamt, Kiel (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2025 – 2026 |
| Scientific support and assistance for the National Circular Economy Strategy (FKZ: 3772 31 105 0) |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH, Wuppertal (DE) Project partner: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2023 – 2026 |
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Symbiotic industrial estates: Sustainable approaches, potentials for structural change regions and possibilities and limits of transferability to mixed-use districts (FKZ 3719 15 101 0) Short description |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: IAT Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen (DE); Zero Emission GmbH, Wuppertal (DE) |
2019 – 2026 |
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Measures to record quantities and types of fishing gear waste from fisheries and aquaculture for high-quality recycling to implement DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904 (FKZ3722 33 303 0) Short description |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: NABU - Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V., Berlin (DE); Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus, Lüneburg (DE); Word Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (DE) |
2022 – 2025 |
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UrbanFactory II - Ressource Efficient City Districts through Urban Production Short description Project website |
Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy (BmWi), Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2021 – 2025 |
| Saxon Zero-Waste Strategy and Strategy for the Implementation of the New Circular Economy Act (Modules 4-7) |
Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, Dresden (DE) Project leader: Intecus GmbH Abfallwirtschaft und umweltintegratives Management, Dresden (DE) Project partner: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE); Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH, Wuppertal (DE) |
2021 – 2024 |
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Analysis of multi-use systems for packaging avoidance (FKZ: 3720 34 3050) Short description |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH, Mainz (DE); Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus, Lüneburg (DE); Prof. Versteyl Lawyer, Burgwedel (DE) |
2020 – 2024 |
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praxPACK - User-integrated development and testing of practical resource-efficient reusable packaging solutions in e-commerce (FKZ 033R243A) Short description Scientifc Article: Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Single use and resuable shipping packaging |
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: Avocadostore GmbH, Hamburg (DE); Bundesverband e-Commerce und Versandhandel Deutschland e.V. (bevh), Berlin (DE); Cargo Plast GmbH, Salem (DE); Deutsche Post AG, Bonn (DE); GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH, Mainz (DE); Händlerbund Management AG, Leipizg (DE); memo AG, Greußenheim (DE); Otto GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg (DE); Plan B From Outer Space Oy, Helsinki (FI); Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM), Berlin (DE); Tchibo GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2019 – 2023 |
Environmental Management |
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| ÖKOPROFIT® - Introductory programme (phase round 34) for enterprises in Hamburg 2025/2026 |
Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft (BUKEA), Hamburg (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2025 – 2026 |
| ÖKOPROFIT® - Introductory programme (phase round 33) for enterprises in Hamburg 2024/2025 |
Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft (BUKEA), Hamburg (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2024 – 2025 |
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ÖKOPROFIT® - Introductory programme (phase round 32) for enterprises in Hamburg 2022/2024 Short description Ökoprofit - City of Hamburg (German) |
Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft (BUKEA), Hamburg (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2022 – 2024 |
Environmentally Sound Products and Product Systems |
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| Scientific support of the implementation process of the Ecodesign Directive 2025-2029, (FKZ: 3724 37 703 0) |
German Federal Environment Agency, Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: ; Öko-Institut e.V., Freiburg (DE) |
2025 – 2029 |
| Consultancy service "Sustainability assessment of video streaming" |
KlimAktiv gemeinnützige Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes mbH, Tübingen (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2023 – 2026 |
| Scientific support of the implementation process of the Ecodesign Directive and the Energy Labelling Regulation - Fourth work programme (FKZ: 372 237 3080) |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: co2online gGmbH, Berlin (DE); Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik gGmbH (ILK), Dresden (DE); SEnerCon GmbH, Berlin (DE); VHK research engineers, Delft (NL) |
2023 – 2026 |
| Conceptual and organisational management of the tender, submission and pre-selection phase of the EISVOGEL 24/25 and support and organisation of the EISVOGEL award ceremony 24/25 |
Heinz Sielmann Stiftung Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2024 – 2025 |
| Development of the "Blue Angel" Ecolabel - Framework Contract 2020 (FKZ 3720 37 303 1) |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: DBFZ gGmbH, Leipzig (DE); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. (IBP), Stuttgart (DE); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. (UMSICHT), Oberhausen (DE); Hydrotox GmbH, Freiburg (DE) |
2020 – 2025 |
| Updating and expanding the existing environmental guideline of the Fhh into a sustainability guideline (FB1a.12.04.10-422) |
Behörde für Umwelt, Klima, Energie und Agrarwirtschaft (BUKEA), Hamburg (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: Dr. Angela Dageförde (Fachjuristin für Vergaberecht), Hannover (DE) |
2023 – 2024 |
| Conceptual and organisational management of the tender, submission and pre-selection phase of the EISVOGEL 23/24 and support and organisation of the EISVOGEL award ceremony 23/24 |
Heinz Sielmann Stiftung Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2023 – 2024 |
| Criteria for the environmentally sustainable production of film and TV productions |
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Berlin (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: KlimAktiv gemeinnützige Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes mbH, Tübingen (DE) |
2021 – 2024 |
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Support of the Round Table on Marine Litter to operationalize the measures proposed under Environmental Objective 5 of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), "Reduction of Marine Litter" (FKZ: 3719 25 204 0) Short description |
German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. (UMSICHT), Oberhausen (DE); ÖkoMedia GmbH, Stuttgart (DE); Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus, Lüneburg (DE); s.Pro - sustainable projects GmbH, Berlin (DE) |
2020 – 2024 |
| Conceptual and organisational management of the tender, submission and pre-selection phase of the EISVOGEL 23/24 and support and organisation of the EISVOGEL award ceremony 23/24 |
Heinz Sielmann Stiftung Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) |
2022 – 2023 |
| Waste avoidance in the procurement, use and disposal of workwear with project partners in the public sector |
Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, Wiesbaden (DE) Project leader: Ökopol GmbH, Hamburg (DE) Project partner: circular.fashion UG, Berlin (DE); Dr. Angela Dageförde (Fachjuristin für Vergaberecht), Hannover (DE); Prof. Monika Fuchs (Professorin für Bekleidungstechnik HTW Berlin), (DE) |
2021 – 2023 |
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