Notification of the annual waste balance (incl. blanc report)
Short description
General information
Waste collectors and/or operators of waste treatment facilities that are subject to recording requirements have to record continuously the following data:
- the origins of the types of waste accepted
- the quantities
- the whereabouts
- the types and quantities of the materials returned to the economic cycle
A summary of the data from the preceding calendar year must be reported to the competent authority once a year (annual waste balance) .
Please note that waste collectors or waste operators of waste treatment facilities who are subject to recording requirements and who have neither taken over nor handed over waste nor carried out any waste treatment in the previous calendar year must submit a blank report .
Deadlines
The annual waste balance report or any blank report must be submitted by 15 March each year (for the previous calendar year).
Example
The first annual waste balance about the reporting year 2010 had to be reported by 15 March 2011.
Competent authority
for the service Notification of the annual waste balance (incl. blanc report):
Abteilung 13 Umwelt und Raumordnung
Stempfergasse 7
8010 Graz,01.Bez.:Innere Stadt
Phone: +43 (316) 877-2491
Fax: +43 (316) 877-3490
Email: abteilung13@stmk.gv.at
Web address: http://verwaltung.steiermark.at
Public office hours
Montag bis Freitag von 8:00 bis 12:30 Uhr und nach Terminvereinbarung
Additional information
The Provincial Governor German text
Please note
Companies subject to the reporting obligation must be registered on edm.gv.at. If a company is not registered, it must submit an application for registration. Registration of companies and reporting of annual waste balances are both carried out electronically via edm.gv.at ( → BMLUK ) .
Procedure
The annual waste balance has to be notified in electronic form via a defined interface on edm.gv.at ( → BMLUK ) . For this purpose, the waste collector or the operator of the waste treatment facilities logs into edm.gv.at using his/her access data (user name and password) and there uploads his/her annual waste balance sheet ( XML file) by the application " Bilanzen ".
Entrepreneurs registered in the Business Service Portal USP have the possibility to use this and many other online procedures German text with one single logging into the USP . More detailed information on the registration in the USP is available in the online guidance on USP registration German text .
Required documents
The annual waste balance sheet has to be uploaded as XML file to edm. gv.at. The necessary content and structures are set out in the Abfallbilanzverordnung (Waste Balance Ordinance). The blank report is based on section 21 paragraph 3 of the Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz (Waste Management Act – AWG) and only has to contain the type of report, the legal entity and the reporting period.
Please note
The file format needed for the electronic transmission has been published on edm.gv.at.
Tip
For "small" landfill operators, electronic support is offered on edm.gv.at, that may be used by other "small" waste collectors or waste management operators as well. This electronic support can also be used to create the blank report.
Additional information
Caution
For all waste collectors and waste handlers who have been granted a permit by the Provincial Governor pursuant to section 24a paragraph 1 of the AWG : If a person subject to the reporting obligation does not submit a waste balance sheet (nor a blanc report) for a longer period than two consecutive reporting periods, the permit shall be deemed to have expired (section 27 of the AWG ).
Related Links
Legal basis
- sections 17 , 21 paragraph 3, 27 of the Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz (Waste Management Act – AWG)
- Abfallbilanzverordnung (Waste Balance Ordinance – AbfallbilanzV )
- section 4 paragraph 2 of the Abfallnachweisverordnung (Waste Records Ordinance – ANV)
Data protection
I have noted that the data provided by me, as well as any data received by the administration over the course of the preliminary investigation, will be automatically processed as per article 6, para. 1 lit. c and e of the General Data Protection Regulation in accordance with the underlying material laws of the legal process. Furthermore, I am aware that this is for the purpose of executing the legal procedure initiated by me, the granting of regulatory approval and also for the purpose of review. I have read the general information regarding:
- the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, withdrawal and objection, as well as on data portability
- the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority
- the responsibilities of the process controller and the data protection officer as per https://datenschutz.stmk.gv.at.