Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture

Submit a measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants at biological waste treatment plants

Prerequisites

• They operate a plant for the biological treatment of waste.
• You have newly constructed the facility or made significant changes.
• You have put the system into operation.
• You have commissioned an accredited measuring institute to carry out the measurement.

Documents required

• Measurement planning
• Measurement result
• measurement methods used
• Operating conditions that are important for the assessment of the measurement results

Please note

Deadlines

• If your waste treatment plant has been newly constructed or significantly modified, you must carry out the measurements every two months for at least one day during the first year after commissioning.


• From the second year after commissioning, you must carry out the measurements every 12 months on at least 3 days.


• Submit the measurement report immediately after the measurement.


• Keep the measurement report for at least 5 years.

Procedure

• You contact an accredited (notified) measuring body, provide the information required for the measurement and arrange a measurement appointment.
• The measuring point then confirms the measurement plan and reports it to the responsible body together with the measurement date.
• At the measurement date, the measuring station determines the emission values and compares them with the legally prescribed emission values of your waste treatment plant.
• After the measurement is completed, you will receive a measurement report from the measuring station.
• You check the measurement report and submit it to the responsible authority along with the required documents.

Processing time

There is no statutory processing time.

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 28 Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschg/__28.html




Section 11 Ordinance on Facilities for the Biological Treatment of Waste (30th BImSchV)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_30/__11.html




Section 29b Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschg/__29b.html




Section 12 Ordinance on Facilities for the Biological Treatment of Waste (30th BImSchV)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_30/__12.html