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Even if your dental, medical or veterinary X-ray equipment is not subject to approval, you must notify the competent authority for radiation protection in writing if you wish to operate the equipment or make significant changes to it or its operation.

Significant changes to an X-ray facility can be, for example

• Change of room
• Structural changes to the room
• Change of the image receiver

• You would like to operate an X-ray system,
  • whose X-ray source is type-approved.
  • whose manufacture and use falls under the Medical Devices Act.
  • which is used for the first time as a medical device and is not used in connection with medical exposures.
• Or you wish to make significant changes to dental, medical or veterinary X-ray equipment.

• Proof of expertise in radiation protection in accordance with § 74 Radiation Protection Act in conjunction with § 47 Radiation Protection Ordinance. § 47 Radiation Protection Ordinance with proof of updating
• Certificate and test report from experts on the radiation protection test
• Proof of knowledge of radiation protection and of updates to this knowledge for personnel working at the X-ray facilities

If necessary, you must also submit

• Type approval certificate with confirmation of routine testing
• CE certificate of conformity

You must submit the documents to the competent authority for radiation protection before commissioning the X-ray equipment and report the planned operation.

State Office for Occupational Safety, Consumer Protection and Health (LAVG)

• § Section 19(1)(1) and (5) of the Act on Protection against the Harmful Effects of Ionizing Radiation (Radiation Protection Act - StrlSchG)

There are no indications or special features.

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)