Notify a change of operator for a facility handling substances hazardous to water (AwSV facility, excluding heating oil consumption facilities and JGS facilities)

Please ensure that you submit your notification to the relevant water authority.

The relevant regional councils (Regierungspräsidien) , which are the higher water authorities, are responsible where the notification relates to premises on which at least one installation is present or planned,

• which is listed in Annex 1, column d, of the Ordinance on Installations Requiring Authorisation (4th BImSchV) and is marked with the letter E,
• which constitutes an operational area within the meaning of Section 3(5a) of the Federal Immission Control Act (major-accident establishment),
• which requires a permit pursuant to Section 60(3), first sentence, point 2 or 3 of the Water Resources Act or
• which constitutes a landfill site under Article 10 in conjunction with Annex I of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, as amended (landfill site of Class I or higher).

The State Mining Authority, Department 9 [Freiburg Regional Council] is responsible throughout the state for sites subject to mining supervision on which one of the above-mentioned facilities is located or is to be constructed.

In all other cases:

• in a city district: the city administration,
• in a rural district: the District Office,

the competent lower water authority.