Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture

Submit a measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants in plants using organic solvents

Prerequisites

• You operate a facility that uses volatile organic solvents (VOCs).
• Your system is subject to the Solvent Ordinance.
  • This is often the case if you operate a car paint shop, a printing shop, or another coating facility. You can find a list of all affected facilities in Annex I of the 31st Ordinance Implementing the Federal Immission Control Act (31st BImSchV).
• You carry out one of the activities listed in Annex II of the Solvents Regulation.
• Your solvent consumption is above the legal threshold.
• You have newly constructed or significantly modified your system.
• You have put your system into operation.
• You have the measurements carried out by an accredited measuring institute or an expert.
  • You can find out which measuring institute is accredited for the required measurement using the online tool ReSyMeSa.

Documents required

• complete measurement report with information on:
  • Measurement planning
  • Measurement result
  • measurement methods used
  • Operating conditions that are important for the assessment of the measurement results

Please note

You commit an administrative offence if you:

• the measurements cannot be taken, cannot be taken correctly or cannot be taken in a timely manner, or
• not preparing or having prepared the measurement report, not preparing it correctly, not preparing it completely or not preparing it on time.

Deadlines

• If you have newly installed or significantly modified your system, conduct the first measurement within three to six months of commissioning. Thereafter, have measurements taken every three years.


• Create the measurement report on the measurement results immediately after the measurement.


• For systems requiring approval, submit the measurement report no later than 12 weeks after the measurement.


• Keep the measurement report for a system that does not require approval at the site of operation for 5 years.

Procedure

• You have the measurements carried out by an accredited measuring institute or an expert.
• You contact a measuring institute or an expert, provide the necessary information for the measurement and arrange a measurement appointment.
• At the measurement date, the measuring institute or the expert determines the emission values and compares them with the legally prescribed emission values of your system.
• You create a measurement report on the measurement results.
• You submit the measurement report to the responsible authority.

Processing time

There is no statutory processing time.

Fees

one

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)


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Section 5 paragraph 4 of the Ordinance on the Limitation of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from the Use of Organic Solvents in Certain Installations (31st BImSchV)


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