Emissionserklärung abgeben – als Betreiberin oder Betreiber einer genehmigungsbedürftigen Anlage

As an operator of certain installations requiring approval, you are obliged to declare the air emissions emitted by your installations. You can submit the emission declaration online.

Air pollutant emissions affect air quality, can form acids in the environment or promote the excessive accumulation of nutrients (eutrophication) in ecosystems. Human health can also be burdened by this.

As an operator of certain industrial plants, you must therefore regularly declare the air pollutant emissions emitted by your plants to the competent authority.

The emission declaration must be submitted to the competent authority in electronic form every 4 years (by 31.05 of the year following the declaration year).

The emission declaration contains information on relevant air pollutants, i.e. on the

• Kind
• quantity and
• spatial and temporal distribution of emissions.

The Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) provides information on which companies must submit an emission declaration.

As an operator of certain industrial and agricultural enterprises requiring approval, you are obliged to submit an emission declaration on a regular basis (§ 27 BImSchG).

Please note the following requirements:

• Installations requiring approval are defined in the Fourth Ordinance on the Implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act and can be viewed in Annex 1 of the Ordinance (4th BImSchV).
• As the operator of a plant listed in § 1 of the 11th BImSchV, you are not obliged to make a declaration.
• Operators of installations requiring approval who operated their installations during the declaration period are obliged to submit an emission declaration (§ 4 paragraph 3 of the 11th BImSchV).
  • If the plant is commissioned, shut down or temporarily not operated during the declaration period, the declaration period includes the parts of the calendar year in which the plant was operated.
• As an operator of a plant requiring approval, you can apply to the competent authority to be exempted from the obligation to submit an emission declaration if, in individual cases, your plant can only cause air pollution to a small extent (§ 6 of the 11th BImSchV).

Submit emission declaration online:

In order to simplify the electronic reporting of environmental data, you as a reporting company can submit your data online via the "Betriebliche Umweltdatenberichterstattung" (BUBE). BUBE is operated as a cooperation between the 16 federal states and the federal government under the Administrative Agreement for the Development and Operation of Environmental Information Systems (VKoopUIS).

The required content of the emission declaration is defined by § 3 and the annex of the 11th BImSchV.

• Their plant requires approval in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchV) and the annex to the 4th BImSchV.
• Under §1 Scope of Application of the 11th BImSchV, those annexes are mentioned that are exempt from the obligation to declare.

There are no costs.

Submit your emissions declaration electronically. Use the corporate environmental data reporting "BUBE online" for this.

• The emission declaration must be submitted to the competent authority in electronic form every 4 years by 31.05. of the year following the declaration year.
• In individual cases, the submission deadline can be extended to 30.06. on request. The application must be submitted to the competent authority by 30.04.

• Emission declaration according to BlmSchG recognition
• Operators of certain industrial installations must regularly declare the emissions of air pollutants emitted by their installations
• 'emission declaration' contains information on the nature, quantity, spatial and temporal distribution of all relevant air pollutants;
• Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) provides information on which companies must submit an emission declaration
• According to § 27 BImSchG, operators of industrial and agricultural enterprises requiring approval are obliged to submit an emission declaration regularly (every 4 years)
• operators of a plant listed in § 1 of the 11th BImSchV are not obliged to declare.
• Installations requiring approval are defined in the Fourth Ordinance on the Implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act (4th BImSchV) and can be accessed in Annex 1 of the Ordinance
• Companies requiring a permit can apply to be exempted from the obligation to submit an emission declaration if in individual cases only a small amount of air pollution can emanate from your plant (according to § 6 of the 11th BImSchV)
• Emission declaration possible online via the portal "BUBE-Online" (company environmental data reporting)
• responsible: competent Land authority