Immissionsschutz: Genehmigung für störfallrelevante Änderung einer Anlage beantragen

Do you intend to make changes to an installation requiring a permit that are relevant to an incident? Then you must first apply for a permit from the responsible authority.

Do you operate an installation that is subject to immission control licensing and constitutes an operating area or is part of an operating area, and are you planning to make changes to the installation that are relevant to incidents?

These projects can lead to a significant increase in risk being triggered by the plant as a result of the change or other requirements under immission control law can no longer be guaranteed.

Against this background, the immission control authority must review these changes.

To do this, you must submit an application for a modification permit and submit all the documents required for the assessment. The application can be made in writing or electronically.

However, approval is not required if and insofar as the obligation to maintain the appropriate safety distance is already guaranteed at the level of a spatially significant plan or measure by binding specifications.

• Application
• Required drawings, plans, documents
• Explanations of the installation/project
• Other documents (if necessary, ask the responsible authority (ELiA checklist))

Fees are charged for the official act. The amount is primarily based on the installation costs of the facility or the administrative costs. Further details are regulated by the Immission Control Costs Ordinance M-V.

If you wish to apply to the competent authority for an accident-relevant change to a facility requiring approval, you must first submit the application documents in full.

You can do this in writing or electronically. The competent authority will confirm receipt of the application in writing or electronically, check it for completeness and involve other specialist authorities if necessary.

If necessary, the authority will request further documents.

6 months for the formal procedure
3 months for the simplified procedure

There is no deadline.

• Objection
• Complaint

• Modification of an installation requiring approval in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act; approval for accident-relevant modifications
• Approval is required for accident-relevant changes to installations requiring approval that are an operating area or part of an operating area:
  • if the appropriate safety distance to neighboring protected objects is undercut for the first time as a result of the accident-relevant change,
  • the safety distance, which has already been undercut, is undercut even further, or
  • a significant increase in risk is triggered.
• Approval is not required if and to the extent that the requirement to maintain an appropriate safety distance is already taken into account by other binding regulations.
• Application: electronic application under immission control law (EliA) or in writing
• Responsible: immission control authority

State Offices for Agriculture and the Environment (StÄLU), Department 5