Waste wood; application for notification as a body for carrying out investigations

The Bavarian State Office for the Environment announces the bodies that operators of certain waste wood treatment plants must commission in order to fulfill their obligations under the Waste Wood Ordinance to initiate certain tests on waste wood.

Altholz - Beantragung der Bekanntgabe als Stelle zur Durchführung von vorgeschriebenen Untersuchungen online
You can apply online for notification as a body for carrying out prescribed examinations within the meaning of the Waste Wood Ordinance. For the online application, you must register or log in via BayernID with the new identity card.

Formloser Antrag (mit Unterschrift)
Dieser Assistent unterstützt Sie bei der Erstellung eines formlosen Schreibens, wenn die zuständige Stelle kein Antragsformular zur Verfügung stellt.

This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.

For contact details of the responsible authoritiy and local valid information select under "Select location" a location.

The Waste Wood Ordinance obliges operators of waste wood treatment plants for the processing of waste wood for the production of wood-based materials to have tests carried out every four months on the pollutant content of waste wood. In principle, these operators only meet these testing obligations if they have the prescribed tests carried out by bodies that have been notified by a competent authority.

In the procedure for the notification of a body, it is checked whether the requirements for notification of the applicant for carrying out the tests specified in the Waste Wood Ordinance are met (see "Requirements" below)

A body shall only be notified to carry out inspections within the meaning of the Waste Wood Ordinance if the applicant

is reliable and has the necessary independence to carry out such third-party inspections,
has the necessary expertise to carry out such external inspections and
has the necessary technical equipment to carry out such external inspections.

Designation of the qualified laboratory director(s)

see module Waste
Extract from the Central Trade Register
for applicants or persons representing the applicant and for technically qualified laboratory directors
Certificate of good conduct
for applicants or persons representing the applicant and for technically qualified laboratory directors
Proof of sufficient spatial and technical laboratory equipment

for applicants operating nationwide, accreditation certificate according to DIN ISO 17025 with annexes to the test procedures and protocol of the last laboratory audit by the accreditation body
Proof of successful participation in the transnational interlaboratory comparison ("LURF").

This is carried out once a year.
Commitment statements for future regular participation in the transnational interlaboratory comparison ("LURF").

This is carried out once a year.
Undertaking to allow the representative of the State Office for the Environment access to the laboratory and to the laboratory work during normal business hours.
Declaration of commitment to keep all samples examined for one year for subsequent examinations by the State Office for the Environment.
For applicants from the EU or EEA foreign countries

equivalent foreign certificates shall also suffice in addition to the above-mentioned certificates of expertise and reliability if these certificates show that the above-mentioned requirements are met or that the requirements of the foreign country are essentially comparable with these requirements. The State Office for the Environment may require the submission of a certified German translation of such foreign certificates.