Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture

Submit a measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants in medium-sized combustion plants

Prerequisites

• You are the operator of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or combustion engine plant.
• You have put your system into operation.
• The obligation to measure does not apply if
  • the system runs for less than 500 operating hours per year or
  • the respective emission share is less than 10% of the annual emissions of the entire plant.

Documents required

• Complete measurement report if the measurement results are not available to the competent authority through suitable telemetric transmission

Please note

You commit an administrative offence if you:

• do not carry out continuous measurements,
• do not submit the measurement report on time,
• do not keep the measurement report and the records of the measuring instruments for at least 6 years.

You can search for accredited measuring institutes on the website of the Research System for Measuring Points and Experts (ReSyMeSa) (see links) that are:

• certify proper installation,
• perform the calibration,
• check functionality.

Deadlines

If the measurement results are not yet available to the competent authority through suitable telemetric transmission:

• Submit the measurement report for each calendar year to the responsible authority by March 31 of the following year at the latest.


• Keep the measurement report and the measuring instrument records for at least 6 years after the end of the respective reporting period.

Procedure

• They evaluate the continuous measurements of each calendar year.
• You create a measurement report based on the results.
• You send the measurement report to the responsible authority on time.
• If the measurement results have already been transmitted to the responsible authority via telemetry in an appropriate manner, you do not need to take any further action.

Processing time

The processing time is not specified by law.

Fees

no

Legal remedies

No legal remedy is provided.

Legal basis

Section 26 Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschg/__26.html




Section 29 Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschg/__29.html




Section 30 Ordinance on Medium-Sized Combustion Plants, Gas Turbines and Combustion Engines (44th BImSchV)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_44/__30.html