Applying for a preliminary decision on an installation requiring approval

• You submit the signed documents to the authority.
• The competent authority will check your application.
• If necessary, the competent authority will request further information or documents from you.
• The competent authority publishes the application with the associated documents and makes it publicly available for one month.
• The competent authority invites the other authorities to be involved to comment on the approval procedure within one month.
• Objections will be discussed with you and those who have raised the objections at a public meeting.
• In a simplified approval procedure or if public participation is waived, there is no public display and no discussion meeting.
• The competent authority decides on your application.
• If necessary, the competent authority will add substantive and ancillary provisions to the decision.
• You will receive a written decision with reasons.
• Those who have raised objections will also receive the decision with reasons.

Online application:

• Use the online service.
• Please log in with your access data via the Gemeinsam-Online service account or register first.
• ELiA-Online is a form-based online service that can also be used to attach further documents (expert opinions, drawings, etc.) to the application or notification using the upload function.

• ELiA forms
  
  • (Electronic immission control application), available on the website of the Trade Supervisory Authority of the State of Bremen
• Explanatory notes on the system
• Required drawings, plans or expert opinions
• Other documents
  
  • If necessary, ask the competent authority

• ELiA-Online - Electronic application under immission control law
  You would like to construct or modify an installation that requires a permit. Then you can create the necessary applications or notifications digitally here in the "ELiA-Online" online service and submit them to the responsible authority.

290 euros to 11,500 euros.
Half of the fee is offset against the respective fee for the permit if the preliminary decision leads to approval without a significant change.

What deadlines must be paid attention to?

Period of validity: 2 years (The preliminary decision becomes invalid if you do not apply for approval of the installation within 2 years. In justified exceptional cases, the period of validity of the preliminary decision can be extended for up to 2 further years).

How long does it take to process

Depending on the individual case.

• § 9 Gesetz zum Schutz vor schädlichen Umwelteinwirkungen durch Luftverunreinigungen, Geräusche, Erschütterungen und ähnliche Vorgänge (Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz BImSchG)
• Kostenverordnung der Umweltverwaltung (UmwKostV)
• Environmental Administration Costs Regulation (UmwKostV)
• Section 9 of the Act on Protection against Harmful Environmental Effects caused by Air Pollution, Noise, Vibrations and Similar Phenomena (Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG))

• ELektronische immissionsschutzrechtliche Antragstellung (ELiA) - Gewerbeaufsicht des Landes Bremen - Arbeits- und Immissionsschutzbehörde
• Electronic Application System for Environmental Protection (ELiA) – State of Bremen Labour Inspectorate – Labour and Environmental Protection Authority