Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture

Submit a measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants at installations in accordance with the approval notice

Prerequisites

• You operate a facility that requires a permit.
• As part of the approval process, it was stipulated that you must have the plant's compliance with limit values for air pollutants verified through individual measurements.
• You have newly constructed the facility, put it into operation or made significant changes to it.
• There is an obligation to carry out recurring measurements.
• You commission an accredited measuring institute or an expert to carry out the measurement.

Documents required

• Approval notice
• Complete measurement report with information on:
  • measurement planning
  • the result of each individual measurement
  • the measurement method used
  • Operating conditions that are important for the assessment of the measurement results

Please note

• The measurement report must comply with Annex A of the guideline VDI 4220 Part 2 (2018 edition).
• If you fail to carry out officially ordered measurements, or if you do so incorrectly, incompletely, or late, you are committing an administrative offense, which can be punished with a fine.

Deadlines

Submit the measurements and the measurement report within the deadline specified in the approval notice.

Procedure

• You have received a permit for your system in which individual measurements are specified by the authorities.
• You contact an accredited (notified) measuring body or an expert, provide the information required for the measurement and arrange a measurement appointment.
• The measuring body or the expert then prepares the measurement plan and reports it to the responsible body together with the measurement date.
• At the measurement date, the emission values of your system are determined and compared with the emission values specified in the approval notice.
• After the measurement is completed, you will receive a measurement report.
• You check the measurement report and submit it to the responsible authority on time.
• You will receive a confirmation.

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




Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control (TA Luft)


https://www.verwaltungsvorschriften-im-internet.de/bsvwvbund_18082021_IGI25025005.htm