Display an installation requiring approval for the first time due to a change in the law
Coal-fired power plants, industrial plants, intensive livestock farming and similar facilities cause air pollution, noise, vibrations, etc. to a particularly high degree.
In order to protect people and the environment from harmful environmental impacts and to prevent the occurrence of harmful environmental impacts, such plants require a permit for construction and operation in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG). The installations that require a permit due to their type and size are listed exhaustively in the Ordinance on Installations Requiring a Permit (4th BIm-SchV).
An installation that does not require a permit and that has already been erected or whose erection or major modification has already begun becomes subject to a permit when it is included in the list of installations requiring a permit in the Ordinance (4th BImSchV). In this case, the installation is subject to the approval requirements under immission control law and must be notified to the competent authority within a period of three months after the respective 4th Ordinance on the Implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act (Ordinance on Installations Requiring Approval) comes into force.
- Required notification documents, drawings, plans, expert opinions
- explanations and
- other documents (if necessary, ask the competent authority).
- This is a notification obligation. As the operator of the installation, you comply with this obligation if you submit the notification to the competent authority by the deadline.
- If the required documents have not already been submitted with the notification, you can submit them to the competent authority within a further two months.
The fee depends on the work involved, but is at least 1500 euros.
- You notify the installation to the competent authority within three months of the entry into force of the respective ordinance in which your installation was included in the catalog of installations requiring approval (4th BImSchV).
- You can do this in writing or electronically.
- Enclose the required documents. Alternatively, you can also submit the documents to the competent authority within a further two months of registration.
- The competent authority will confirm receipt in writing or electronically. If necessary, the authority will request further documents.
- The competent authority may impose additional requirements on you to ensure that your installation fulfills the obligations under the Federal Immission Control Act or that other public law regulations and concerns do not conflict with the construction and operation of the installation.
Processing Time: 1 MonthThe competent authority must respond to your notification within one month of receiving it in full.
Application Deadline: 3 MonthsThe notification must be made within 3 months of the respective 4th BImSchV coming into force.
Forms available: yes
Written form required: in writing or electronically
Informal application possible: no
Personal appearance necessary: no
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection
12.10.2023
