Procedure descriptions
Immission control - Submit measurement report on continuous measurements of air pollutants at cremation facilities in accordance with 27. BImSchV
If you operate a cremation facility for human corpses, you must continuously measure and record the air pollutant emissions for certain air pollutants.
You must draw up a measurement report or have one drawn up every year analysing the measurements and submit it to the responsible immission control authority.
Responsible authority
The local immission control authority responsible for the installation site is
- in urban districts, large district towns and in administrative communities declared to be lower administrative authorities: the municipal administration
- otherwise the district office
Details
Prerequisite
You are the operator of a facility for the cremation of human corpses.
Procedure
- You analyse the continuous measurements of each calendar year.
- You prepare a measurement report on the results.
- You send the measurement report to the responsible immission control authority by the deadline.
Deadlines
- You must submit the measurement report to the responsible immission control authority within 3 months of the end of each calendar year.
- You must keep the records of the measuring devices for 5 years.
Required documents
Complete measurement report
Costs
None.
Miscellaneous
This administrative service does not apply to animal crematoria.
Legal basis
Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (BImSchG)
- § 26 Messungen aus besonderem Anlass
- § 29 Kontinuierliche Messungen
Verordnung über Anlagen zur Feuerbestattung - 27. BImSchV
- § 7 Kontinuierliche Messungen
- § 8 Beurteilung und Berichte von kontinuierlichen Messungen
Release note
machine generated, based on the German release by: Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg, 10.07.2025