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• Personal appearance required: no

Sites suspected of being contaminated are, on the one hand, plots of land of decommissioned companies/plants and other plots of land on which environmentally hazardous substances have been handled (contaminated sites) and, on the other hand, plots of land of decommissioned waste disposal plants and other plots of land on which waste has been treated, stored or deposited (contaminated sites).

The competent authority maintains a register of contaminated sites in which areas suspected of being contaminated are registered.

For various reasons, a property owner or a person with a legitimate interest needs to know whether a property is suspected of being contaminated. For this purpose, an application for information from the register of contaminated sites can be submitted to the competent authority.

For the provision of information to persons who are not themselves the owner of the requested property, a power of attorney from the owner must be presented.

If you are not the owner of the property for which you are requesting information from the register of contaminated sites, you must enclose a power of attorney from the property owner with the application.

An application is necessary, which requires the following information:

• Your name and address,
• the exact designation with address and/or parcel number of the parcel in question,
• attach a site plan if necessary,
• attach a power of attorney from the owner of the land if the land is not yours.

If the applicant is not the owner of the land: power of attorney of the owner of the land.

Fees will be charged in accordance with the administrative costs.

If you want to know whether official information on contaminated sites or harmful soil changes is available for a property, submit an application for information from the register of contaminated sites.

The relevant application form with the necessary information is forwarded to the competent authority in whose area of responsibility the property in question is located.

You will then receive notification from the authority as to whether the property in question is registered in the register of contaminated sites and what information is recorded there. As the register of contaminated sites is continuously updated, this information on contaminated sites represents the current status; the right to make subsequent changes is reserved.

The information can be requested at any time.

Information from the register of contaminated sites can be obtained from the competent lower soil protection authorities of the districts and independent cities of the state of Brandenburg

• § Section 3 of the Environmental Information Act (UIG)
• § Section 4 Environmental Information Act (UIG)
• § Section 21 of the Federal Soil Protection Act (BBodSchG)

The information provided to you is based on information from the current register of contaminated sites. The register of contaminated sites is updated on an ongoing basis; we reserve the right to make changes and updates. No guarantee is given for the topicality and completeness of the contaminated site register and the information provided from it.

Ministry for Environment, Energy, Food and Forestry Rhineland-Palatinate

Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection (MLUK) of the State of Brandenburg