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Submit a measurement report on periodic measurements of air pollutants at waste incineration and co-incineration plants

Do you operate a waste incineration plant or a combustion plant that burns waste? Learn how to determine pollutant emissions through periodic measurements here.

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Detailed description

If you operate a waste incineration plant or a combustion plant that co-incinerates waste, you must also determine air pollutant emissions through periodic measurements.



You must normally carry out the measurements at least once a year and additionally if you

  • Your facility has been newly built,
  • put into operation or
  • have changed significantly.
 

Information

Prerequisites

  • You operate a waste incineration or waste co-incineration facility that requires a permit.
  • You must carry out periodic measurements in accordance with your permit.
  • You have newly constructed the facility or made significant changes.
  • You have put the system into operation.
  • You commission an accredited measuring institute or an expert to carry out the measurement.

Documents required

  • Complete measurement report with information on:
    • Measurement planning
    • Measurement result
    • 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 have the measurements taken, do so incorrectly, incompletely, or not on time, you are committing an administrative offense, which can be punished with a fine.

Deadlines


  • Submit the measurement report together with all documents no later than 8 weeks after the measurements.

  • If your system has been newly constructed or significantly modified, you must have the measurements taken every 2 months in the first year after commissioning, and then regularly every 6 months.

Procedure

  • You contact an accredited (notified) measuring institute or an expert, provide the necessary information for the measurement and arrange a measurement appointment.
  • The measuring institute or the expert then prepares the measurement plan and reports it to the responsible authority together with the measurement date.
  • At the measurement date, the emission values of your system are determined and compared with the legally prescribed emission values.
  • After the measurement is completed, you will receive a measurement report.
  • You check the measurement report and submit it to the responsible authority.
  • 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




Sections 18 and 19 of the Ordinance on the Incineration and Co-Incineration of Waste (17th Federal Immission Control Ordinance)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_17_2013/__18.html

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Last updated: 10.02.2026