Department of Immission Control

If the chimney sweeping work to be carried out is not carried out or not proven to the authorized district chimney sweep within the deadline, the latter shall report this to the responsible district administrative authority.

The tasks of chimney sweeps range from initial acceptance when installing or modifying combustion systems to regular sweeping and inspections and regular measurement of exhaust gas values in accordance with immission control legislation.

If immission limit values for air pollutants are exceeded, clean air plans must be drawn up with suitable measures to permanently reduce air pollution.

If you operate a medium-sized combustion plant, gas turbine or internal combustion engine plant, you must notify the competent authority.

Operators of evaporative cooling systems, cooling towers and wet separators are obliged, among other things, to apply the state of the art during construction and operation and to implement organizational measures.

In particular, systems requiring approval are regularly inspected to ensure that they comply with the legal regulations and the approval notice. They can also be inspected for special reasons.

The competent authority can also issue subsequent orders for approved installations.

If you need to appoint a new immission control and/or hazardous incident officer for your company or operating area, or if there are changes in their area of responsibility, you must notify the responsible immission control authority.

Certain companies with particularly high hazard potential (operating areas) are subject to the Major Accidents Ordinance.

Installations which, due to their nature or operation, are particularly likely to cause harmful environmental impacts on the air, soil or water are regularly monitored by the competent authorities.