IPPC treatment plants - Special notification requirements
Short description
General information
The owner of an IPPC treatment plant (except for a landfill) must notify the competent authority of all disturbances and accidents with significant environmental impact.
The owner of an IPPC treatment plant which is located in a conurbation with a number of inhabitants exceeding in any case 100,000 must notify the competent authority of the noise emissions emanating from this IPPC treatment plant (related to the source of noise and the plant limit) and their sources.
Deadlines
- Notification in the case of disturbances and accidents with considerable environmental impact immediately
- Notification of noise emissions : By at latest four weeks after the legally binding approval of the IPPC treatment plant becoming effective or after the legally binding approval of a considerable change of this plant.
Competent authority
for the service IPPC treatment plants - Special notification requirements:
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 waste management authority [ Abfallwirtschaftsbehörde ] which is locally in charge of the site:
- The Provincial Governor German text [ Landeshauptmann ]
- The Provincial Governor may delegate procedures and supervision to the district administrative authority German text [ Bezirksverwaltungsbehörde ]
Required documents
Minimum contents for notifications:
- Information about the disturbance or the accident and the related environmental effects.
- Information about the noise emissions related to the source of noise and the source of noise emissions.
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.
