Facilities operations and inspections

Facilities often have an impact on the environment – through noise, vibrations or emissions. That is why in many cases, operations require authorisations and are subject to regular inspections. You will find information and services here.

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Apply for a partial building permit
Prior to the final building permit, the execution of certain work can be permitted with the partial building permit.
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Apply for a partial permit for the construction and operation of a plant
If you wish to construct and or operate part of a new facility, you must apply for a partial permit from the appropriate authority.
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Apply for a permit under immission control law for the construction and operation of systems
If you want to set up and operate a plant that could damage the environment or endanger the general public, you need a permit under immission control law.
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Apply for approval for the operation of an X-ray facility or the significant modification of the facility for materials testing
Do you want to operate an X-ray system in technical radiography for coarse structure analysis in materials testing or make changes to the operation? Then you must notify the competent authority for radiation protection and apply for a permit.
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Apply for approval for the operation of an X-ray facility or the significant modification of the operation for teleradiology
Would you like to operate a teleradiology X-ray facility or make significant changes to it? Then you must first apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Apply for approval in simplified procedure for a plant according to BImSchG
Are you applying for a permit for installations under the simplified procedure? Then you can obtain a permit from the competent authority for the construction and operation of installations of a certain type or size without public participation.
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Apply for approval of the premature construction of a plant requiring a permit
You have applied for a permit for a plant requiring a permit? Then you can also apply to start construction of the plant ahead of schedule.
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Apply for company certification for the climate-friendly installation, maintenance and servicing of systems with fluorinated greenhouse gases
Does your company want to install, maintain, service, repair or decommission systems containing fluorinated greenhouse gases, check them for leaks or recover the gases? Then you need a company certificate.
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Apply for determination of final landfill closure
If you have carried out all the necessary measures during the closure phase of the landfill or landfill section, you must apply to the competent authority for final closure to be established.
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Apply for modification certification of terminals for BOS digital radio
If you, as the manufacturer, have made technical changes to a terminal device that is already certified for digital radio for authorities and organizations with security tasks, compliance with the legal requirements must be checked again.
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Apply for type approval for devices with radioactive substances and systems for generating ionizing radiation
If you want to manufacture devices with radioactive substances or systems for generating ionizing radiation that may be operated without a permit or notification, you can apply for a type approval.
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Applying for a permit for the construction and operation of genetic engineering facilities
Do you want to set up or commission genetic engineering facilities? Then you need a permit from the competent authority.
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Applying for a preliminary decision on a plant requiring a permit
If you apply for a preliminary decision on a plant requiring a permit, the competent authority may grant this under certain conditions.
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Applying for a transfer of the mining license
If you want to transfer the mining license to a third party, you need the approval of the competent authority.
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Applying for a transfer of the mining license
If you wish to transfer the mining permit to a third party, you require the consent of the competent authority.
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Applying for approval to operate or significantly change the operation of a technical X-ray facility
If you wish to operate technical X-ray equipment or make significant changes to it, you must first apply for a permit from the responsible radiation protection authority.
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Applying for permission to extract groundwater
If you wish to extract groundwater, you can apply for a permit under water law from the relevant water authority.
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Building permit / building application
Planning permission is often required in order to implement a building project. You must apply for this accordingly.
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Building permit in the simplified approval procedure
§ Section 66 (1) sentence 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Building Regulations (LBauO) lists projects for which the simplified approval procedure must be carried out. This...
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Carry out passenger screening
The aim of aviation security checks is to prevent aviation security from being jeopardized by the carriage of prohibited items. A comparison between booking documents (boarding...
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Check the increased risk of incidents (domino effect)
In the case of neighbouring operating areas, the authority checks whether domino effects exist.
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Check the quality and labelling of fuels and fuels of installations in need of approval
The competent authority shall verify compliance with chemical, physical parameters and limit values for fuels. The results are reported annually to the Federal Environment Agency, which in turn reports them to the European Commission (National Fuel Report).
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Create rail market survey report
The Federal Network Agency regularly analyzes developments on the rail market. The aim is to identify potential discrimination and strengthen competition. The data and its analyses are published in the "Railway market survey".
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Display a plant that requires approval for the first time due to a change in the law
If you are constructing or have erected a plant requiring a permit and this installation has not yet been approved or notified, you must report this to the competent authority in due time.
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Display accident-relevant changes to an operating area
Have you changed an operating area in accordance with the Major Accidents Ordinance or changed an installation in the operating area in a way that is relevant to a major accident? Then you must notify the competent authority.
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Display accident-relevant changes to an operating area in advance
Would you like to change an operating area in accordance with the Major Accidents Ordinance or a system in the operating area in a way that is relevant to a major accident? Then you must notify the competent authority .
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Display inspection, testing, maintenance and repair of X-ray equipment or interference emitters
If you wish to inspect, test, maintain or repair X-ray equipment or sources of interference on a commercial basis, you must notify the competent authority before commencing the activity, enclosing the necessary documents (notification).
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Display operation of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine and internal combustion engine plant
Do you already operate a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant? Then you must notify the responsible immission control authority.
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Display setting of the incident-relevant operation, an operating area or a system of the operating area
Do you wish to discontinue operations, the operating area or an installation in the operating area in accordance with the Major Accidents Ordinance?
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Ensuring compliance with the relevant regulations for installations requiring approval under immission control legislation
Are you an operator or a person with operator obligations under the BImSchG? Then you must inform the competent authority of how you ensure compliance with regulations and instructions when operating a plant that requires a permit.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for a permit to erect and operate installations with pressure equipment
If you want to build, operate or make certain changes to a filling system for compressed gases, you need a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for a permit to erect and operate steam boiler plants
If you want to build, operate or make certain modifications to a Category IV steam boiler plant, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for a permit to set up and operate petrol stations
If you want to set up, operate or make certain changes to a gas station, you must apply for a permit from the relevant authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for permission to construct and operate a plant requiring monitoring
If you want to build, operate or make certain changes to a plant that requires monitoring, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - applying for a permit to construct and operate storage facilities
If you want to establish, operate or make certain changes to a storage facility, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - applying for a permit to install and operate gas filling systems
If you wish to set up or operate a gas filling system or make certain changes to it, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - applying for a permit to set up and operate filling stations
If you wish to set up, operate or make certain changes to a filling station, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - Certifying persons qualified to test protection against hazards from explosions and fires
You need official recognition if you want to carry out tests on explosion-proof equipment.
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Ensuring operational safety - Report a case of damage when using work equipment
You must report any damage incidents involving certain work equipment or systems requiring monitoring in which components or safety-related equipment have failed.
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Ensuring operational safety - Report an accident during the use of work equipment
You must report accidents involving certain work equipment or installations requiring monitoring in which a person has been killed or seriously injured immediately.
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Extend the inspection period for installations in need of monitoring
If you wish to extend the inspection period for an installation requiring monitoring, you must apply to the competent authority.
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Have the producer organization recognized
You can find out what a recognized producer organization means and how you can form one here.
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Having terminals certified for BOS digital radio
If you manufacture or sell terminals for BOS digital radio, you must have them certified.
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Inspection certificate for a system requiring monitoring in accordance with the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health
Operators of systems requiring monitoring are obliged to prove the safety of their systems by means of regular inspections by recognized inspection bodies in compliance with...
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Laying hen farm register and producer codes
Since January 1, 2004, only eggs from a farm for which an identification number has been issued and which are marked with a corresponding producer code may be placed on the marke...
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Legionella report value overruns
Exceeding measures for the concentration of Legionella in useful water must be reported to the competent authority!
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List of "Seed treatment facilities with quality assurance systems for dust reduction": Apply for inclusion of a seed treatment facility
You may only treat seed with certain crop protection products if your seed treatment site produces seed that releases as little dust as possible. If you operate a seed dressing site, you are obliged to have your process technology, procedures and documentation checked.
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Measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants in other installations
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Meat production: hygiene monitoring
The slaughter of animals and the subsequent steps (cutting, processing, sale to third parties, etc.) are subject to official supervision. European and national food hygiene...
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Metrology and calibration
The State Office of Metrology and Verification Rhineland-Palatinate is responsible for the enforcement of legal metrology regulations, regulations under the Medical Devices Act...
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Notify changes to the operator or responsible persons of an incident-relevant operating area
If the operator, the registered office of the operator or the person responsible for an operating area in accordance with the Hazardous Incident Ordinance changes, you must notify the responsible body.
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Notify non-compliance with permit requirements for an installation requiring a permit under the Industrial Emissions Directive
Are you the operator of an installation under the Industrial Emissions Directive and have discovered that the permit requirements are not being complied with? Then you must notify the competent authority.
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Notify termination of the approved or notified operation or handling
If you no longer wish to operate an X-ray device, you must inform the responsible radiation protection authority.
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Notify the commissioning of fixed installations for the transfer or storage of petrol, fuel mixtures or raw petrol that do not require a permit
Do you want to commission a stationary facility for transferring or storing fuels that does not require a permit? Then you must notify the competent authority in advance.
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Nuclear fuels: production, handling/processing - authorization
Any person who constructs, operates or otherwise holds a stationary installation for the production or processing or treatment or fission of nuclear fuels or for the reprocessing...
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Obtain approval for the operation of an interference emitter or a significant change in operation
If you wish to put an interference source into operation or make significant changes to its operation, you must first apply for a permit from the responsible radiation protection authority.
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Operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance Check changes subject to inspection after recommissioning
The competent authority shall supervise whether, in the case of installations requiring monitoring, the legally required tests have been carried out after changes subject to...
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Operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance Check inspection before first commissioning
The competent authority shall supervise whether, in the case of installations requiring monitoring, the legally required tests have been carried out before they are put into...
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Order installations requiring monitoring to carry out an extraordinary inspection
As an employer, you must immediately arrange for an extraordinary inspection of systems requiring monitoring if, for example, damage has occurred.
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Order plant inspection by experts
In the context of the monitoring of industrial and commercial enterprises, the supervisory authorities may order measurements of emissions and immissions and safety tests by experts.
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Ordering a safety-related assessment requiring monitoring
There was a damage or accident in connection with systems requiring monitoring? The competent authority may then order an inspection by approved inspection bodies.
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Perform time synchronization of computers
If you want to set the clock on your computer or mobile device precisely, you can use a service provided by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), which enables time...
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Periodically check the operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance
It checks whether the legally required periodic inspections have been carried out on an installation requiring monitoring.
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Permit waste disposal facility
Do you want to treat, store or deposit waste in waste disposal facilities? Then these may only be constructed and operated once a permit has been issued in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act.
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Plant inspection by experts
As part of the monitoring of industrial and commercial enterprises, the supervisory authorities may order measurements of emissions and immissions and safety-related tests by experts.
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Prior notification of the construction of an operating area relevant to hazardous incidents
Would you like to set up and operate an operating area in accordance with the Major Accidents Ordinance? Then you must notify the competent authority .
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Radiation protection
The regional trade supervisory offices of the structural and licensing directorates perform the following tasks with regard to radiation protection: licensing the...
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Repair organization Apply for recognition
Do you want to operate a repair business? Then you must have it recognized.
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Report first-time exceedance of the threshold values for installations not subject to authorization for the use of organic solvents above the threshold values
Do you want to operate a plant that does not require a permit and uses solvents and exceed the threshold values in Annex I of the 31st BImSchV for the first time? Then you must notify the responsible immission control authority in advance.
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Report inheritance in the case of a mining license
If the holder of a mining permit dies, the right to the permit is transferred to the heirs.
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Report inheritance with a mining license
If the holder of a mining permit dies, the right to the permit is transferred to the heirs.
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Report insignificant changes to a terminal device for BOS digital radio
You must immediately report changes to a terminal device already certified for BOS digital radio to the Federal Agency for the Digital Radio of Authorities and Organizations with Security Tasks (BDBOS).
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Report Legionella
In the KaVKA-42.BV application, operators of plants that fall within the scope of application of the 42nd BImSchV report these systems to the competent authorities, report exceedances of measure values and communicate the results of checks of proper plant operation.
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Report the operation or significant modification of technical X-ray equipment
Would you like to operate a technical X-ray device that does not require a permit or make significant changes to it? Then you must notify the competent authority for radiation protection.
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Shortening the inspection period for systems requiring monitoring
For certain systems requiring monitoring, you can apply for a shortening of the inspection period in individual cases.
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Show change of operator of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine and internal combustion engine plant
Would you like to change the operator of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant? Then you must report this to the responsible immission control authority.
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Show commissioning of a crematorium
Do you want to put a cremation facility into operation? Then you must notify the competent authority notify.
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Show commissioning of a filling station
Do you want to put a filling station into operation? Then you must notify the competent authority in advance.
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Show commissioning of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine and internal combustion engine plant
Would you like to commission a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant? Then you must with the responsible immission control authority.
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Show emission-relevant change for a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine and internal combustion engine plant
Would you like to carry out an emission-relevant modification to a medium-sized combustion plant, gas turbine or combustion engine plant? Then you must notify the responsible immission control authority.
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Show final decommissioning of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine and internal combustion engine plant
Do you want to permanently decommission a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant? Then you must notify the relevant immission control authority.
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Submit a measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants at waste incineration and co-incineration plants
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Submit a measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants at plants for the biological treatment of waste
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Submit documents for the supervision of construction and for commissioning procedures in the railroad sector electronically to the Federal Railway Authority
If you, as a railroad infrastructure company, want to construct, upgrade or renew new railroad operating facilities, you need a corresponding commissioning permit from the Federal Railway Authority.
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Submit maintenance concept for potentially explosive systems
As an employer, you can eliminate the need for recurring inspections of certain systems in potentially explosive atmospheres by drawing up a maintenance concept.
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Submit safety report on upper-tier operating areas in accordance with the Major Accidents Ordinance
Do you want to put an upper class operating area into operation? Then you must submit a safety report to the competent authority beforehand.
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Submit the results of emission monitoring for an installation requiring a permit under the Industrial Emissions Directive
You want to install a system in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive do you want to operate? Then you must submit an annual summary of the results of emission monitoring and other data to the competent authority for to check compliance with the permit requirements.
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Suitability testing of non-electronic devices that measure radon in the workplace
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) regularly carries out suitability tests for non-electronic measuring devices used to measure radon at workplaces.
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System requiring approval Show change
If you wish to make a change to an installation, you must notify the competent authority or obtain approval first.
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Transmit information for the preparation of external alarm and emergency plans prior to the commissioning of incident-relevant operating areas
If you want to put an upper-tier operating area into operation, you must provide the competent authority with the information required to draw up external alarm and emergency plans in advance.
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Transmit information on the creation of external alarm and emergency plans before changes are made to incident-relevant operating areas
Would you like to make an accident-relevant change to an upper-tier operating area? Then you must provide the competent authority with the information required to create external alarm and emergency plans in advance.
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View evaporative cooling systems, cooling towers and wet separators
The commissioning of new evaporative cooling systems, cooling towers and wet separators is subject to notification, as well as changes and decommissioning of plants as well as operator changes.
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View incidents in operating areas
You must inform the competent authority before starting a business area or if your operating area is to be changed in an incident.
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View operation or substantial change in operation of a dental, medical and veterinary X-ray facility
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Waste water: construction of plants - approval
For the construction and operation of a wastewater treatment plant and any significant changes to it, you will require a water law plant permit in addition to the water law...
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Water-polluting substances: Specialist company - Proof of specialist company status
Specialist companies must provide evidence of their specialist company status to the lower water authority in whose district they operate upon request. It must also be possible t...
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