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Ordinance on Medium-Sized Combustion Gas Turbine and Combustion Engine Plants - 44th BImSchV
On June 20, 2019, the new Ordinance on Medium-Sized Combustion, Gas Turbine and Internal Combustion Engine Plants (44th BImSchV) came into force. This is based on the enacted EU Directive 2015/2193 of November 25, 2015 (MCP Directive) to limit man-made emissions, particularly in the form of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and total dust. The introduction of the 44th BImSchV transposed the MCP Directive into national law.
Scope
If the operated plant falls under the scope of application of § 1 of the 44th BImSchV, this applies directly to the plant operator without further order of the immission control authority and is to be applied.
The scope of application includes the following installations:
- Combustion plants requiring a permit and combustion plants not requiring a permit (medium-sized combustion plants, gas turbine plants and combustion engine plants) with a rated thermal input of at least 1 megawatt and less than 50 megawatts, regardless of which fuels or which types of fuels are used,
- Combustion plants requiring a permit (medium-sized combustion plants, gas turbine plants and internal combustion engine plants) with a rated thermal input of less than 1 megawatt, regardless of which fuels or which types of fuels are used; and
- Joint combustion plants pursuant to § 4 with a rated thermal input of 1 megawatt or more, regardless of which fuels or which types of fuels are used, unless this combination constitutes a combustion plant with a rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more that falls within the scope of the Ordinance on Large Combustion Plants, Gas Turbine Plants and Combustion Engine Plants of 2. May 2013 (BGBL. I p. 1021, 1023, 3754), last amended by Article 1 of the Ordinance of December 19, 2017 (BGBL. I p. 4007).
§ Section 1 (2) of the 44th BImSchV contains a list of installations that are not affected.
Duty of disclosure
According to § 6 of the 44th BImSchV, new combustion plants within the meaning of the 44th BImSchV must be notified to the competent authority prior to their commissioning. Existing plants must be notified by December 1, 2023. In addition, emission-relevant changes, a change of operator and the final decommissioning of a combustion plant must also be notified. In addition to the notification, the information specified in Annex 1 of the 44th BImSchV must be submitted in particular. This notification requirement does not apply to individual furnaces that are to be aggregated as part of a combustion plant requiring a permit pursuant to § 4 para. 3 sentence 2 of the 44th BImSchV, provided that the rated thermal input of the individual furnaces is less than 1 megawatt.
Information
Which the operator must submit to the competent authority as part of the aforementioned notification
- Combustion heat output of the firing plant (in megawatts)
- type of combustion plant (diesel engine plant, gas turbine, dual-fuel engine plant, other engine plant, other combustion plant)
- Type of fuels used and respective share in the total energy input according to the fuel types mentioned in § 2 par. 9
- Date of commissioning of the combustion plant
- The NACE code
- Expected number of annual operating hours of the combustion plant and average operating load
- If a scheme for plants with few operating hours pursuant to § 15 par. 9, § 16 par. 7 sentences 2 and 3 or § 29 par. 2 is used: a statement signed by the operator according to which the combustion plant will not be in operation for more than the number of hours referred to in those paragraphs
- If use is made of a provision for emergency operation pursuant to § 15 par. 6, § 16 par. 5, 6 or par. 10 no. 4: a declaration signed by the operator according to which the combustion plant will be in operation only in case of emergency
- name and place of business of the operator and location of the installation with address
- geo-coordinates of the chimney and height above ground level
Register
The City of Hof, as the competent authority pursuant to § 36 of the 44th BImSchV, shall maintain a register containing information on each combustion plant to be registered pursuant to § 6 of the 44th BImSchV and shall also make the information contained in the register publicly accessible in accordance with Directive 2003/4/EC, including via the Internet.
Attachment:
Download notification form according to the 44th BImSchV
