Applying for recognition of other persons for mine surveying activities in mining

You can apply for recognition online via the "BergPass" platform or in writing to your local mountain authority.

Apply for recognition online:

• Go to the "BergPass" online platform and log in.
  • To register, you will need a BundID and an identity card or residence permit with an active online ID function.
• Call up the application form and fill it out completely and truthfully.
• Upload the required documents as a file and send the application.

Apply for recognition directly to the responsible authority:

• Contact your competent mining authority and coordinate the required application documents.
• Submit the application and all required documents.

Further procedural steps:

• The competent authority will check your application and the documents submitted. If any documents are missing, they will contact you.
• You will receive a notification informing you of the decision on your application. In addition, the decision will be sent electronically to the relevant mailbox (bundID or ELSTER company account) in advance and information will be displayed in BergPass.
• You will also receive a notification of costs. Pay the fees.

Please contact the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Geology and Mining (LGB).

• The prerequisite for your application is that you have applied in advance to the responsible mining authority that your project does not require a mine plan.
• You must prove that you meet the following requirements:
  • There are no known facts that make you appear unreliable for the professional activity.
  • You are mentally and physically suitable for the intended activity.
  • You are professionally competent in a surveying or surveying-related field, i.e. you possess
    • a professional qualification obtained in a member state of the European Union, a contracting state of the European Economic Area or Switzerland in the fields of mine surveying, mine surveying or general surveying from a university, technical university, technical college or technical school or vocational training recognized as equivalent in or outside the Federal Republic of Germany and
    • at least three years of specialist professional experience in the mining sector in which you have applied for recognition.

• Certificate of successful completion of studies in a technical or scientific field at a university, college or university of applied sciences
• for proof of personal reliability:
  • If resident in Germany: Certificate of good conduct (not older than 3 months at the time of application)
  • If you live abroad: documents from your home country that prove your personal reliability
• Proof of specific professional qualifications, in particular
  • Degree and work certificates
  • certificates
  • Certificates of attendance for relevant further training courses and
  • Certificates of employment
  • Medical certificate

The fees are calculated on a time basis.

• State ordinance on fees for official acts of a general nature (general schedule of fees)
• State Ordinance on the Fees of the Mining Administration and the Geological Survey (Special List of Fees)
• State Ordinance on the Fees of the Mining Administration and the Geological Survey, Annex 11

There is no deadline.

• § Section 13 Markscheider Mining Ordinance (MarkschBergV)
• Markscheide Act Rhineland-Palatinate

• Objection, which is processed by the competent mining authority
• If necessary, subsequent appeal to the administrative court

09.12.2024