In industrial and commercial facilities, the handling of a large number of environmentally hazardous substances is often unavoidable. These substances can change the nature of the ecosystem - water, soil, air, climate, animals, plants, microorganisms - in such a way that the environment is endangered immediately or later.However, airborne emissions (noise, pollutants, light, heat and radiation) can also pose an environmental hazard.
The Lower Environmental Authority monitors the impact of environmentally relevant facilities on the environment.
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The operation of installations that are particularly likely to cause harmful effects on the environment or otherwise endanger, significantly disadvantage or disturb the general public or the neighborhood require a permit in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act(BImSchG). The installations that require a permit are listed in the 4th Ordinance to the BImSchG (4th BImSchV).
Corresponding application forms and further information on the approval procedure can be found here:
Night work
To protect the peace and quiet at night, work is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The prerequisite for an exception in individual cases is that the work at night is necessary in the public interest or in the overriding interest of one of the parties involved.