HU4 environmental investigations

Apply for approval as a water testing facility

Prerequisites

Your company is based in Hamburg.
If your company is not based in Hamburg:

• The federal state in which your company is based does not offer such notification.

If your company is based in another European country:

• You plan to work in Hamburg.

You meet the requirements

• to the investigation body and its organisation,
• the reliability and expertise of the person in charge of the investigation body and
• the number and expertise of the staff of the investigation centre

Documents required

Complete application
Accreditation certificate and annexes,
Commercial register extract,
Proof of insurance,
Commitment declaration,
Certificate of good conduct of the laboratory manager
List of internal and external samplers

Please note

As a water testing facility, your tasks include the following areas:
1. Sampling and general parameters,
2. Photometry, ion chromatography, volumetric analysis,
3. Elemental analysis,
4./5. Group and sum parameters,
6. Gas chromatography methods,
7. HPLC method,
8. Microbiological procedures
9.1 Biological methods, bioassays (Part 1) and
9.2 Biological methods, bioassays (Part 2).

Deadlines

You need to be registered as a water testing facility before you start your work.

Procedure

• You submit the application for “approval as a water testing facility” together with the required documents to the responsible authority.
• The responsible authority will examine your application and your documents. If necessary, the responsible authority will request further documents or information from you.
• The responsible authority will decide on your application.
• You will receive a notification from the responsible authority.
• They are announced as water testing stations by the responsible body via the internet portal of the research system for measuring stations and experts (ReSyMeSa). Their notification is valid in all federal states.

Processing time

Processing usually takes 3 months after all required documents have been received.

Fees

The fee for the approval of the testing center depends on the number of testing areas and is between 325.00 and 3000.00 euros.

Legal remedies

Contradiction

Legal basis

Section 58 Paragraph 1 No. 2 Water Resources Act (WHG)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/whg_2009/__58.html




§§ 16 ff Hamburg Water Act (HWaG)

https://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-WasGHA2005pP16




§ 17a Hamburg Wastewater Act (HambAbwG)

https://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-AbwGHApP17a




Ordinance on requirements for water and wastewater testing facilities and their approval (W/AbwUZulV HA 2015)

https://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-W_AbwUZulVHA2015rahmen




Water specialist module (on the administrative agreement between the states on the proof of competence and the notification of testing laboratories and measuring points in the legally regulated environmental sector)

https://www.lawa.de/documents/fachmodul_wasser_18_1619787992.10