Construction and operation of a plant requiring monitoring in accordance with the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health Permit for storage facilities

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

Storage facilities are rooms or areas, including the fixed containers and other storage facilities provided in them, which are used to store flammable liquids with a total volume of more than 10,000 liters. These are facilities requiring monitoring.

You require a permit from the competent authority if you:

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

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.

The regional councils of Darmstadt, GIeßen and Kassel are responsible.

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 system and filling station
• 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
• Description of the storage facility and list of storage classes applied for
• General plan
• Site plan
• Floor plan/technical plan
• Ex-zone plan
• Explosion protection concept
• Information on fire protection
• Description of the permanently available retention volume
• 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 the storage facility 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 facility 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 two years.

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

Administrative fees will be charged in accordance with the applicable administrative cost regulations.

The publication (LV 49) contains a list of the required application documents for storage facilities in Annex 4.