Immission control - Submit measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants in large combustion plants, gas turbines and internal combustion engines in accordance with 13. BImSchV
If you are the operator of a large combustion plant, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant, you must determine, record and analyse its pollutant emissions on an ongoing basis by means of continuous measurements.
You must prepare a measurement report on the results of the continuous measurements every calendar year and submit it to the responsible immission control authority.
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Responsible authority
The competent authority for installations that fall under the Ordinance on Large Combustion, Gas Turbine and Internal Combustion Engine Installations (13th BImSchV) is in most cases Department 5, Environment of the locally responsible regional council. In individual cases, the responsibility may deviate from this.
According to the Immission Control Competence Ordinance of the State of Baden-Württemberg (ImSchZuVO), the following applies:
The Departments 5, Environment of the respective locally responsible regional councils are the responsible immission control authorities for company premises on which
- at least one installation that is labelled with the letter E in column d of Annex 1 of the Ordinance on Installations Requiring a Permit,
- at least one operating area in accordance with Section 3 (5a) of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) (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,
- Operating 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
- Operating sites with facilities that serve the construction, significant expansion and significant modification of underground cavities.
The locally competent lower immission control authority (district or municipal administration) is the competent authority for all other industrial sites that do not fall under the regulations described above.
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Prerequisite
You are the operator of a large combustion, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant in accordance with the 13th BImSchV.
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 each 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 5 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.
Legal basis
Gesetz zum Schutz vor schädlichen Umwelteinwirkungen durch Luftverunreinigungen, Geräusche, Erschütterungen und ähnliche Vorgänge (Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz -BImSchG):
- § 26 Messungen aus besonderem Anlass
- § 29 Kontinuierliche Messungen
Dreizehnte Verordnung zur Durchführung des Bundes-Immissionschutzgesetzes (Verordnung über Großfeuerungs-, Gasturbinen- und Verbrennungsmotoranlagen - 13. BImSchV):
- § 17 Kontinuierliche Messungen
- § 19 Auswertung und Beurteilung von kontinuierlichen Messungen
Release note
Machine generated, based on the German release by: Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg, 16.01.2026
