Submit emissions declaration according to 11. BlmSchV

Air pollutant emissions impair air quality, can form acids in the environment or drive the excessive accumulation of nutrients (eutrophication) in ecosystems. This can also have a negative impact on human health.

As the operator of certain industrial facilities, you must therefore regularly declare the air pollutant emissions from your facilities to the competent authority.

The emission declaration must be submitted to the competent authority in electronic form every 4 years (by 31.05 of the year following the year of declaration).

The emission declaration contains information on relevant air pollutants, i.e. on the

• type,
• quantity and
• spatial and temporal distribution of emissions.

The Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) provides information on which companies must submit an emissions declaration.

As the operator of certain industrial and agricultural businesses that require a permit, you are obliged to submit an emissions declaration on a regular basis (§ 27 BImSchG).

Please note the following requirements:

• Installations requiring approval are defined in the Fourth Ordinance on the Implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act and can be viewed in Annex 1 of the Ordinance (4th BImSchV).
• As the operator of an installation listed in § 1 of the 11th BImSchV, you are not required to submit a declaration.
• Operators of installations subject to approval who have operated their installations during the declaration period are obliged to submit an emissions declaration (Section 4 (3) of the 11th BImSchV).
  • If the installation is commissioned, shut down or temporarily not operated during the declaration period, the declaration period includes the parts of the calendar year in which the installation was operated.
• As the operator of an installation requiring a permit, you can apply to the competent authority to be exempted from the obligation to submit an emissions declaration if, in individual cases, your installation may only emit a small amount of air pollution (Section 6 of the 11th BImSchV).

Submit an emissions declaration online:

To simplify electronic reporting of environmental data, you as a company subject to reporting requirements can submit your data online via "Betriebliche Umweltdatenberichterstattung" (BUBE). BUBE is operated as a cooperation between the 16 federal states and the federal government under the Administration Agreement on the Development and Operation of Environmental Information Systems (VKoopUIS).