Construction and operation of a plant requiring monitoring in accordance with the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health Authorization of filling stations

If you wish to set up, operate or make certain changes to a filling station, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.

Filling stations are fixed installations or installations permanently used at the same location with a handling capacity of more than 1000 liters per hour. Filling stations are used to fill transport containers with flammable liquids. This is a facility that requires monitoring.

You require a permit from the competent authority if you:

• wish to set up and operate a filling station
• wish to make changes to the design or mode of operation that affect the safety of the system.

Permission may be granted subject to the following restrictions:

• limited,
• limited in time,
• subject to conditions or
• with conditions.

If the installation requiring a permit is part of an installation requiring a permit, no separate permit will be issued. The authorization includes the permit.

Regional Council

Please contact the regional councils.

Informal application with the following details:

• Surname, first name, company name
• Address of the applicant
• Contact information (e-mail, telephone, fax)
• Type of permit
  • Construction and operation
  • Modification and operation or
  • Partial permit
• Specification of the operating site

Documents required to assess the installation:

• Subject of the application
• Description of the installation
• Description of the system technology and interaction with other systems
• Piping and instrument flow diagram (P&I flow diagram)
• Safety data sheets
• Description of operation
• General plan
• Site plan
• Floor plan/technical plan
• Ex zone plan
• Explosion protection concept
• Information on fire protection
• Description of the liquid-tight area
• Calculation of production costs
• Other systems
• Test report from an approved inspection body (ZÜS)
  • The test report must confirm that the system can be operated safely if the specified measures are complied with.

Forms available: No

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: Yes

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: No

• The facility for which you are applying for a permit must be a facility requiring a permit.
• You must construct and operate filling stations in accordance with the state of the art.
• Your documentation must be complete, plausible and meaningful.
• The test report from the approved inspection body (ZÜS) must confirm that the system applied for can be operated safely if the measures specified in the documents, including the tests, are complied with.

Appeal:

• You can appeal against the decision within one month of notification.
• You must submit the appeal to the competent authority in writing or for the record.

• Submit the application for approval of the system requiring monitoring with the required documents including the test report from the approved monitoring body (ZÜS) to the responsible authority.
• If a permit is required in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act, you will receive the application documents back, as a permit in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance will then also be checked as part of the necessary permit in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act.
• The competent authority will make its decision after examination and inform you.

The permit expires if:

• you have not commenced construction of the installation within two years of the permit being issued,
• you have interrupted the construction of the installation for two years or longer or
• you have not operated the installation for a period of three years.

You can apply to the licensing authority for an extension of the deadlines for important reasons.

Administrative fees in accordance with the applicable administrative cost regulations.

The publication (LV 49) contains a list of the required application documents for filling stations in Annex 5.