Certain emissions and immissions of noise, vibrations and air pollutants may only be determined by expert bodies, e.g. engineering offices or measuring institutes.
These bodies must be notified by the competent authority. You must apply for this notification.
A notification in one federal state is valid for the whole of Germany.
Notified bodies can be
- Companies under civil law
- legal persons:
- Companies limited by shares (AG)
- Limited liability companies (GmbH)
- Cooperatives
- Associations
- Authorities and other public institutions
General partnerships (OHG) and limited partnerships (KG and GmbH & Co. KG) are treated the same as legal persons.
Note: Recognitions from another member state of the EU or another contracting state of the EEA are equivalent to notifications if these recognitions are recognised as equivalent.