Recognition and disclosure as an expert or expert according to the Federal Soil Protection Act

You can submit the request in writing or electronically.

Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether all the requirements for recognition as an expert or expert have been met.

You will then receive a fee notice. The fees are generally due with the application.

In addition, the recognition authorities will check the reliability as well as the technical equipment and your liability insurance. Their professional suitability is examined by committees or expert bodies for soil protection and contaminated sites. Again, you will have to bear the costs. The review process usually consists of the evaluation of your submitted expert opinions, as well as a written elaboration and an expert discussion. The result of the review will always be communicated to you in writing. If desired, the decision can be explained in a conversation. Once the recognition authority has checked all the requirements and your professional aptitude/expertise has been determined, the recognition and notification will take place by notification and you will receive a certificate. Their recognition will be published in the nationwide register of experts and will also be published in the publication organ of the recognition authority.

In order for you to be recognised as an expert or expert in the field of soil protection, you must prove that you:

• the requisite comprehensive expertise,
• have the necessary technical equipment and the necessary liability insurance for the expert work, and
• Prove your personal reliability.

• Name of the subject area applied for
• Curriculum vitae in tabular form with professional career and passport photo
• Description of the current professional focus
• Certificate of good conduct "for submission to an authority" in the original (not older than three months) and/or consent to obtain unrestricted information from the Federal Central Register in expert matters
• Copies of certificates
• Proof of liability insurance or a concrete declaration of intent to take out the contract in an appropriate amount
• a list of activities from the last three years with a list of objects showing the type of expert opinions independently processed during this time and the topics and questions dealt with as well as any associated contact persons and reference persons
• in the last five years prior to the submission of the application, independently prepared expert opinions or expert opinions with marked in-house contributions, namely five for each subject area applied for.
• possibly other written elaborations that are suitable to prove the required expertise (scientific). Publications, work aids, etc.)
• Proof of subject-specific training in the last three years

Declarations as to the

• that the applicant is in an orderly financial situation;
• whether he or she has been the subject of proceedings for the submission of an affidavit in the context of enforcement in the 10 years preceding the application, either personally or in his capacity as a legal representative of a commercial company;
• whether insolvency proceedings have been opened in respect of his or her assets or the assets of a company of which he or she was a director or director or whether they have been rejected for lack of assets;
• whether he or she is under investigation or has been pending in the last five years but has been discontinued
• whether he or she has been sentenced by a German court or foreign court (date, reason, sentence);
• whether, when and from which body he or she has at any time applied for public appointment and swearing-in as an expert.
• Experts who are employed or civil servants also require a declaration of exemption from their employer or employer

Please check with your local authority to see if you need to submit any further documents.

Depends on the respective administrative fee schedule of the state or on the fee statutes of the competent authorities under state law.

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The necessary tests are very extensive and can take between six and eighteen months, depending on the order area.

• Form: Application form of the recognising authority
• Online procedure: not possible
• Written form requirement: yes
• Personal appearance required: yes

• Administrative Court Action
• Contradiction

There are no hints or specifics.

Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce

06.11.2020