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Hazardous waste Apply for a permit for waste management activities

Service Description

If you want to start a waste management activity with hazardous waste, for example as a collector, transporter, trader and broker, then you must apply for permission for this activity to the competent authority.

If you have already obtained a permit for your activity and there have been significant changes in circumstances, you must reapply for the permit.

The permit requirement applies to both national and transboundary waste shipments.

If you are exempt from the permit requirement (for example, as an economic enterprise, waste management facility, EMAS facility), notification of your activity is sufficient.

Process flow

  • If you want to take up this activity for the first time as a collector, transporter, trader and broker of hazardous waste, or if significant circumstances of your activity have changed, apply for a permit from the competent authority.
  • You can do this by mail or by using the online form to enter your data and submit the required documents.
  • In the case of the online form, you must sign the application with a qualified electronic signature to complete it.
  • The authority will send you an acknowledgement of receipt. After reviewing the application and your documents, the authority may
  • request additional documents or
  • grant the permit with or without incidental provisions, or
  • reject the permit.

Who should I contact?

Responsible for collectors, carriers, dealers and brokers who have their headquarters in Thuringia are the lower waste authorities of the locally responsible counties and independent cities.

If an application for a permit is submitted electronically, the application is automatically forwarded to the competent authority. The permit can also be issued electronically via the Central Waste Coordination Office.

Requirements

The competent authority shall grant the permit if

  • no facts are known which give rise to doubts about the reliability of the owner or the persons responsible for the management and supervision of the operation, and
  • the owner, as far as he is responsible for the management of the enterprise, the persons responsible for the management and supervision of the enterprise and the other personnel have the necessary technical and expert knowledge for their activity.

Which documents are required?

  • Your company number(s) under waste law as a collector, transporter, broker or dealer of waste (if already issued to you)
  • the transaction number of your initial application (only if you wish to create a change)
  • your business registration (if you are required to register your business)
  • an extract from the commercial, association or cooperative register (if an entry has been made)
  • Proof of business and environmental liability insurance (insofar as such insurance exists)
  • proof of the professional competence of the persons responsible for the performance and supervision of the enterprise
  • Proof of motor vehicle liability insurance (if you wish to apply for a permit for the activities of collecting or transporting and the transport takes place on public roads)

What are the fees?

Administration fee: EUR 250 - 5000

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Permission must be obtained prior to commencing the activity of collecting, transporting, trading or brokering.

Legal basis

Appeal

  • Written form required: Yes
  • Personal appearance required: No

What else should I know?

  • Collectors and transporters of waste shall carry a copy or printout of the permit confirmed by the authority when carrying out their activities.
  • A completed notification does not replace the permit.
  • The holder of the permit must prove to the authority, without being asked to do so, that the persons responsible for the management and supervision of the operation have regularly attended training courses recognized by the competent authority, at least every three years.

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation

Professionally released on

19.01.2023

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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