Submit measurement report on individual measurements of air pollutants at cremation facilities

If you operate a cremation facility for human corpses, you must have the air pollutant emissions checked regularly by means of individual measurements.

If you are the operator of a facility for the cremation of human corpses, you must have the air pollutant emissions of the facility checked at regular intervals by means of individual measurements.

You must have the measurements carried out by an accredited measuring institute or an expert.

You must send the results of the measurements in a measurement report to the immission control authority responsible for you.

The environmental departments of the regional councils are responsible.

Please contact the environmental department of the regional council responsible for you.

Complete measurement report with details of:

• Measurement planning
• measurement result
• Measurement methods used
• Operating conditions that are important for assessing the measurement results

• You are the operator of a facility for the cremation of human corpses.
• You have put your facility into operation.

The administrative service is a real act against which no legal remedy is possible.

• You contact an accredited measuring institute or an expert, provide the necessary information for the measurement and arrange a measurement date.
• The measuring institute or expert draws up a measurement plan for you and reports this to the immission control authority responsible for you together with the measurement date.
• On the measurement date, the measuring institute or expert determines the emission values and compares them with the legally prescribed emission values.
• Once the measurement has been completed, you will receive a measurement report from the measuring institute or expert.
• You check the measurement report and send it together with the measurement planning, the result of the measurement, the measurement method used and the operating conditions during the measurement to the authority responsible for you.
• You will then receive confirmation from the authority that your measurement report has been received.

You must submit the measurement report together with all documents to the responsible authority within 3 months of carrying out the measurement and then keep it for 5 years.

You must have the first measurement carried out within 3 to 6 months of commissioning the system. Subsequently, the measurement must be carried out every 3 years.

There is no statutory processing time.

In Hesse, fees for the official inspection of measurement reports are charged on a time basis.

Fee free of charge

• The content of the measurement report must comply with Annex A of Guideline VDI 4220 Sheet 2 (2018 edition).
• If you do not have the measurements carried out, do not have them carried out correctly, do not have them carried out in the prescribed manner or do not have them carried out on time, you are committing an administrative offense that can be punished with a fine.
• This administrative service does not apply to animal crematoria.