Odor immission guideline
The odor pollution guideline (GIRL), in the long title “Determination and assessment of odor pollution”, is intended to help estimate odor nuisance of the population and to take it into account in the land-use planning . It was developed by the State Committee for Immission Control (LAI). It also serves as a working basis for the immission control authorities in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Immission Control Act and has been introduced in the federal states in a partially binding manner through corresponding decrees or administrative regulations.
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Since the odor threshold is very different in people (e.g. women have a different perception than men) and several odor sources can play a role in the vicinity, trained experts are used to assess the odor. The main issue here is whether a smell is perceived as pleasant or unpleasant. Problems are particularly equipment for factory farming and some industrial sites and port terminals , in a densely populated country like Germany repeatedly give rise to complaints from the population. Smells that are otherwise perceived as pleasant, such as B. that arise when roasting coffee , lead to annoyance above a certain concentration. The TA Luft does not contain any regulations for odor immissions, so the need arose to develop a guideline. Like the TA Luft, the Odor Immission Directive is an anticipated expert report.
In North Rhine-Westphalia , odor nuisance was initially assessed on the basis of the Refinery Directive 1975 and an implementing decree for TA Luft from 1986. In the period that followed, the federal state developed its own odor pollution guideline . The first version of the GIRL at federal level dates from 2004, a revision took place in 2008, the text was last amended on September 10, 2008.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.wissenschaft-aktuell.de/artikel/Warum_Frauen_besser_riechen_koennen1771015589683.html
- ↑ Christoph Droesser: Right ?: Always follow your nose . In: The time . No. 28/2010 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Eckehard Koch: Odor immissions - a long way to evaluation . Hazardous substances - keeping the air clean , Volume 72 (2012) 10, p. 397.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
