Report an accident or malfunction involving hazardous substances

The responsible authorities are

• the district administration if the company premises are located in a district,
• the municipal administration if the company premises are located in an urban district.

A deviating responsibility applies in the following cases (including companies that are subject to the European Industrial Emissions Directive, the Hazardous Incident Ordinance or mining law):

 

The respective local regional councils are the competent authorities for business premises on which

• at least one installation marked with the letter E in column d of Annex 1 of the Ordinance on Installations Requiring a Licence,
• at least one operating area in accordance with Section 3 (5a) of the Federal Immission Control Act (hazardous incident operation),
• at least one installation that requires a licence pursuant to Section 60 (3) sentence 1 number 2 or number 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 at the Freiburg Regional Council is also the state-wide competent immission control authority for

• Operational sites, including the facilities and activities located thereon, which are subject to mining supervision,
• Operating sites with cable cars and funicular railways used for passenger transport,
• 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
• Sites with installations used for the construction, significant expansion and significant modification of underground cavities.