Emissions/immissions/immission control
Service description
As a neighbor of a facility—which may be a business or simply a piece of property—you must tolerate emissions to a certain extent if you are not affected by them, or only insignificantly so.
The extent of the impact you must tolerate generally depends on whether or not there is significant nuisance, harmful environmental effects, or other hazards (e.g., factory noise in the vicinity of industrial sites or pollutant emissions from industrial facilities).
An insignificant impact exists if the official emission limits set by the TA-Lärm (Technical Instructions on Noise) or the TA-Luft (Technical Instructions on Air Quality) are not exceeded and the emission limits at the facilities—established to prevent harmful environmental impacts—are complied with. In this context, higher requirements are imposed on facilities requiring a permit than on those not requiring a permit.Legal basis
What else should I know?
You can find guidance and explanations on many fundamental issues related to environmental protection on the websites of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building, and Nuclear Safety, the Hessian State Office for the Environment and Geology, and the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection. Procedural Guidelines
Detailed
information on the implementation of approval and notification procedures under air pollution control law in Hesse can be found in the Procedural Manual for the Enforcement of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG).- Air · Noise · Traffic
(Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety)
- Hesse State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment, and Geology
- Procedural Manual for the Approval Process
- Air · Noise · Traffic