Report statistical data on employees and operational processes in the mining industry

You can submit statistical data online via the "BergPass" platform or directly to your competent mountain authority.

Submit statistical data online via the "BergPass" platform:

• Call up the "BergPass" online platform and log in.
  
  • To register, you need a "My company account" or a BundID.
• Call up the application and fill it out completely and truthfully.
• Upload the required documents as a file and send the application.

Submit statistical data directly to the responsible mining authority:

• Contact your competent mining authority and coordinate the required documents.
• Submit the application and all required documents to your competent mining authority.

Further procedural steps:

• The competent mining authority will check your details and the documents submitted. If any documents are missing, the mining authority will contact you.

• Please contact the responsible office.

• BergPass - the application platform of the mountain authorities
  The BergPass application platform allows you to process all federal mining law procedures online.

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What deadlines must be paid attention to?

As an entrepreneur in the mining industry, you must provide statistical information on employees and operational processes. You must submit the required information to the competent mining authority at different times.
By the end of February:
- based on September 15 of the previous year: the safety-relevant equipment in underground coal mining.

- Based on the month of October of the previous year: the operational status of the alignment, equipment and extraction in underground coal mining.

- in relation to the month of November of the previous year: the status of measures to combat dust and silicosis in operations at risk of dust and silicosis; the number of underground operating points at which a noise assessment level of 85 decibels (frequency weighting curve A) has been exceeded and the number of shifts worked there.

- in relation to December 31 of the previous year: the number of all employees and trainees; the strength and composition of the mine and gas protection brigades; the number of all employees, including those joining and leaving, and the hours worked.

- In relation to the previous year: the meters drilled by surface miners from boreholes subject to the operating plan; the operating areas of more than 1 hectare for opencast mines and the areas reclaimed from these and, in the case of underground mining, the areas used for stockpiles and ponds of more than 1 hectare; for other mining operations, the raw and usable output and the quantity of products in processing.
Until the 15th of April and October:

- in relation to the months of January and July: the number of underground operating points at which the prescribed lower temperature or climate limits have been exceeded; and the number of shifts operated there.
Until the end of each month:

- in relation to the previous month: for hard coal and lignite mining, the recoverable output and the quantity of products in processing.

How long does it take to process

2 weeks bis 4 weeks

• § 9 Unterlagen-Bergverordnung (UnterlagenBergV)