Water-polluting substances: Specialist company - Proof of specialist company status

Contact the responsible lower water authority.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, this is the district administration, in independent cities the city administration.

• the certificate of certification as a specialist company, issued by a recognized quality and monitoring association or a technical monitoring organization

None.

The deadline possibly set by the lower water authority for the submission of the evidence.

• Federal Water Act (WHG)
• Ordinance on Installations for Handling Substances Hazardous to Water (AwSV)
• Rhineland-Palatinate State Water Act
• § Section 62 Ordinance on Installations for Handling Substances Hazardous to Water (AwSV)

If the specialist company status is denied: Objection, legal action before the administrative courts.

The regional offices for water management, waste management and soil protection of the Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektion Nord (Koblenz, Montabaur, Trier) or Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektion Süd (Kaiserslautern, Mainz, Neustadt a.d.W.).

The Institute for Heat and Oil Technology has published a list of approved specialist companies.

The local water authority responsible will inform you which activities at a system for handling substances hazardous to water are subject to the specialist company obligation.

• Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektion Nord