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Immission control - Submit measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants in medium-sized combustion plants in accordance with the 44th BImSchV

If you operate a medium-sized combustion plant, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant, you must determine pollutant emissions by means of continuous measurements under certain conditions.

You must prepare a measurement report on the results of the measurements for each calendar year and send this to the immission control authority responsible for you by the deadline.

Responsible authority

The responsibilities in the area of immission control are regulated in the Immission Control Competence Ordinance of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

In most cases, the competent authority for plants that fall under the 44th BImSchV is the local lower immission control authority, i.e

  • the district office if the premises with the plant are located in a district,
  • the city administration if the premises with the plant are located in a city district.

A different responsibility applies in the following cases (e.g. for companies that are subject to the European Industrial Emissions Directive, the Hazardous Incident Ordinance or mining law):

Departments 5, Environment of the respective locally responsible regional councils are the competent immission control authorities for company premises on which

  • at least one installation marked with the letter E in column d of Annex 1 of the Ordinance on Installations Requiring a Licence,
  • at least one operating area in accordance with Section 3 (5a) of the Federal Immission Control Act (hazardous incident operation),
  • at least one installation that requires a licence pursuant to Section 60 (3) sentence 1 no. 2 or no. 3 of the Federal Water Act, or
  • at least one landfill in accordance with Article 10 in conjunction with Annex I of Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control), as amended

exists or is to be constructed.

Department 9, State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining of the Freiburg Regional Council is also the state-wide competent immission control authority for

  • Operational sites, including the facilities and activities located on them, which are subject to mining supervision,
  • Operating sites with cable cars and funicular railways used for passenger transport,
  • Sites with high-pressure gas pipelines which, as energy installations within the meaning of the Energy Industry Act, serve to supply gas and which are designed for a maximum permissible operating pressure of more than 16 bar,
  • Underground waste disposal facilities and
  • Sites with installations used for the construction, significant expansion and significant modification of underground cavities.

Details

Prerequisite

You are the operator of a medium-sized combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant.

Procedure

  • You analyse the continuous measurements of each calendar year.
  • You prepare a measurement report on the results.
  • You send the measurement report to the immission control authority responsible for you by the deadline.

Deadlines

  • You must submit the measurement report for a calendar year to the responsible immission control authority by 31 March of the following year at the latest.
  • You must keep the measurement report and the records of the measuring devices for at least 6 years after the end of the respective reporting period.

Required documents

Complete measurement report

Costs

None

Miscellaneous

Please ensure that you submit the measurement report to the immission control authority responsible for your plant.

Release note

machine generated, based on the German release by: Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg, 10.07.2025

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