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The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Water Supervision

Water monitoring includes the enforcement and monitoring of necessary measures

to improve the situation of water bodies as part of the natural balance,
to reduce the input of substances into water bodies,
for the elimination of water pollution, and
to prevent future possible burdens.

The powers of action of the competent authority are standardised in §§ 100 and 101 of the Act on the Regulation of the Water Balance (WHG) and in § 128 of the Lower Saxony Water Act (NWG).

Responsibility lies with the district, the independent city and the large independent city.

In special cases, which are regulated in the Ordinance on Responsibilities in the Field of Water Law (ZustVO-Wasser), responsibility lies with the municipality, the joint municipality and the city, the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation (NLWKN), the State Trade Supervisory Office or the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG).

Ordinance on Responsibilities in the Field of Water Law (ZustVO-Wasser)

Documents may be required. Please contact the competent authority.

Fees may apply, please contact the competent authority.

Deadlines may have to be observed. Please contact the competent authority.

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)

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