Industrie- oder Gewerbeanlage: Messbericht über Einzelmessungen von Luftschadstoffen einreichen

If you wish to operate certain industrial or commercial facilities that require a permit, the authorities may stipulate in the permit that you have compliance with limit values for pollutant emissions checked regularly by means of individual measurements.

If you operate or wish to operate certain industrial or commercial facilities that require approval, the authorities may stipulate in the approval notice that you have compliance with limit values for pollutant emissions from the facility checked regularly by means of individual measurements as part of the approval procedure.

As a rule, you must carry out the measurements if you have newly installed, commissioned or significantly modified your installation.

Details on the type and scope of the measurements can be found in the approval notice for your installation.

You must have the ordered measurements carried out by an accredited measuring institute or an expert.

You must then summarize the results of the measurements in a measurement report and send this to the immission control authority responsible for you.

• Approval notice
• Complete measurement report with information on
  • the measurement planning
  • the result of each individual measurement
  • the measurement method used

You have received a notice of approval for an industrial or commercial facility that requires approval.

• You have received a notice of approval for your system in which individual measurements are specified by the authorities.
• You contact an accredited measuring institute or an expert, provide the necessary information for the measurement and arrange a measurement date.
• The measuring institute or expert then confirms the measurement plan for you and notifies the immission control authority responsible for you of this together with the measurement date.
• On the measurement date, the measuring institute or expert determines the emission values and compares them with the legally prescribed emission values for your system.
• Once the measurement has been completed, you will receive a measurement report from the measuring institute or expert.
• You must check the measurement report and send it together with the measurement planning, the result of each individual measurement, the measurement method used and the operating conditions during the measurement to the immission control authority responsible for you within the deadline specified in the approval notice.
• You will receive confirmation from the authority that your measurement report has been received.

There is no statutory processing time.

Measurements and the measurement report must be submitted to the competent authority together with all documents within the period specified in the approval notice.

• The content of the measurement report must comply with Annex A of Guideline VDI 4220 Sheet 2 (2018 edition).
• If you do not have officially ordered measurements carried out, or do not have them carried out correctly, completely or on time, you are committing an administrative offense that can be punished with a fine.

The administrative service is a real act against which no legal remedy is possible.

• Measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants; acceptance for installations in accordance with the approval notice
• Official order for individual measurements under immission control law (pollutant measurement)
• only applies to certain industrial and commercial facilities requiring a permit
• The type, scope and deadlines for the measurements are specified in the approval notice for the installation
• Measurements must be carried out by an accredited measuring institute or expert.
• Responsible: competent immission control authority

• responsible in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania:
  • Installations requiring approval: State Offices for Agriculture and the Environment (StÄLU), Departments 5
  • Installations not requiring approval: Immission control authorities of the districts, independent cities and large towns belonging to districts

Does the plant require a permit under the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)?

• if "Yes", click on "Continue with the State Office for Agriculture and the Environment (StALU)"
• if "No", click on "Continue with the Lower Immission Control Authority"