Ordinance on air quality standards and emission ceilings
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Thirty-ninth ordinance for the implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act |
| Short title: | Ordinance on air quality standards and emission ceilings |
| Abbreviation: | 39.BImSchV |
| Type: | Federal Ordinance |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Issued on the basis of: | § 48a Paragraph 1, 3, § 48b BImSchG |
| Legal matter: | Environmental law |
| References : | 2129-8-39 |
| Issued on: | August 2, 2010 ( BGBl. I p. 1065 ) |
| Entry into force on: | August 6, 2010 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 112 VO of June 19, 2020 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1328, 1341 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
June 27, 2020 (Art. 361 of June 19, 2020) |
| Weblink: | Text of the regulation |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The ordinance on air quality standards and maximum emissions , issued on August 2, 2010, is the thirty-ninth ordinance for the implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act , which serves to implement European directives on air pollution control directly into German law.
It defines measurement methods, target values, immission limit values and alarm thresholds, as well as maximum emissions for certain air pollutants. The air pollutants arsenic , lead , cadmium , nickel and mercury , which together with other substances mainly occur as fine dust and often come from industrial plants, as well as the most important components of exhaust gases from motorized traffic, namely benzene , benzo [ a ] pyrene , carbon monoxide , Ozone , nitrogen oxides , are recorded. In addition, immission limit values, alarm thresholds and a critical value for sulfur dioxide are specified, which can come not only from exhaust gases from motorized traffic, but also from coal-fired power stations and domestic fires.
Basics and purpose
The German federal government passed the regulation in order to implement the directives 2001/81 / EG, 2004/107 / EG, 2008/50 / EG of the European Parliament and of the Council into national law. These are more extensive regulations than the smog ordinances of the federal states from the 1980s, which were based, for example, on the 1976 revised § 45 of the Road Traffic Act (StVO), or the ordinance on immission values for pollutants in the air (22nd BImSchV). Essentially, the 39th BImSchV has replaced and tightened the previous 22nd BImSchV and 33rd BImSchV.
