The verification and register obligations under the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act (KrWG) are aimed at documenting and monitoring the proper disposal of waste.

As a waste-generating company that produces hazardous waste, you and the companies involved in its disposal must provide evidence of proper disposal both to each other and to the competent authorities and keep the necessary records.

As a waste-generating or waste-disposing company, you must provide proof of disposal even before the start of disposal in order to prove the permissibility of the planned type of disposal.

However, if you generate less than 20 tonnes of hazardous waste per year, you can participate in the collective waste disposal certificate procedure instead. In this case, it is not the waste-generating company that provides proof of disposal, but the company that collects the waste.

The competent authority must generally also confirm the permissibility of the disposal prior to the start of the disposal in the collective waste approval procedure.

The obligation to confirm the collective proof of disposal does not apply in the so-called privileged procedure. This applies to the following companies:

• Disposal facilities that are certified as specialised waste management companies or
• Disposal facilities that belong to a company entered in the EMAS register or
• Waste management facilities that are exempt from the confirmation obligation upon application by the competent authority.

In the privileged procedure, disposal can begin immediately after the collective waste management certificate has been sent to the competent authority.