Register und Nachweise über den Verbleib von Abfällen führen

§ Section 49 of the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act in conjunction with Section 23 of the Ordinance on Waste Recovery and Disposal Records

§ Section 50 of the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act in conjunction with Section 2 of the Ordinance on Waste Recovery and Disposal Records

Under certain conditions, you must keep a register of the whereabouts of various types of waste.

Hazardous waste

Anyone wishing to dispose of hazardous waste must keep a register or certain records of its whereabouts.

The register or the records to be kept document the disposal processes of the hazardous waste. The obligation to keep the register applies to producers, holders, collectors, carriers, traders and brokers as well as all disposers of hazardous waste.

The obligation to keep records applies to the same group of persons with the exception of dealers and brokers of hazardous waste.

Non-hazardous waste

In individual cases, the competent authority may order that registers or records of the whereabouts of non-hazardous waste must also be kept.

Waste disposers must in any case also keep a register of the disposal of non-hazardous waste.

Form of record keeping

The registers and records must be kept in electronic form; electronic form is only optional for the keeping of registers on the disposal of non-hazardous waste.

Private households

These obligations do not apply to private households.

You can find out which documents are required on the GOES website.

Fees are charged on the basis of the state ordinance on administrative fees. Detailed information can be obtained from the responsible office.

www.bmub.bund.de/N50308/

Further information on the verification procedure can be found on the websites of GOES, the Ministry for Energy Transition, Climate Protection, Environment and Nature of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Central Coordination Office of the Federal States (ZKS-Abfall).

Anyone wishing to dispose of hazardous waste must keep a register or certain records of its whereabouts.

In certain cases, this also applies to those who wish to dispose of non-hazardous waste.

These obligations do not apply to private households.

• To the GOES,
• to the State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (LLUR) or
• to the districts/district-free cities (lower waste disposal authorities).