Hazardous waste and POP waste – Drawing up of a waybill

General information

For each transfer of hazardous waste or of POP waste (hazardous or non-hazardous) from one legal person to another legal person the person transferring the waste has to draw up, and keep during shipment, a waybill [Begleitschein]. The waybill must indicate indicating the type, quantity, origin and whereabouts of the hazardous waste.

Each waybill must bear the indication "Begleitschein für gefährlichen Abfall und für POP-Abfall" (meaning "waybill for hazardous waste and for POP waste") and a waybill number which may be assigned once only.

All entries on the waybills must be written clearly.

The person taking over the waste must confirm the proper receipt of the hazardous waste or the POP waste and add specific data on the waybill.

The notification to the Provincial Governor has to be made electronically by the person taking over the waste via the register on edm.gv.at.

Enterprises affected

Persons transferring waste where they transfer hazardous waste or POP waste

Requirements

The transfer of hazardous waste from one legal person to another legal person

Deadlines

The waybill shall be handed over immediately upon transfer of the hazardous waste or the POP waste and shall be carried during Transport.

Competent authority

The Provincial Governor^{German text}

Procedure

The holder of the business establishment (transferor of the waste) completes the waybill and retains a carbon copy or duplicate which he/she has to keep on file for at least seven years, calculated from the day of transfer.

The carrier who takes the waste to a waste collector or an operator of waste treatment facilities (person taking over the waste) retains the original copy of the waybill during transport and passes it on to the person taking over the waste.

The person taking over the waste supplements the waybill data on the original copy of the waybill, creates a transcript or a carbon copy or duplicate of the waybill and forwards it to the transferor of the waste within four weeks following the last day of the month in which he/she took over the waste.

The person taking over the waste reports the waybill data to the Provincial Governor electronically within six weeks following the takeover of the hazardous waste. The data have to be reported electronically via edm.gv.at.

The waybills (and copies) must be kept on file at the business establishment for at least seven years and have to be presented to the competent body at any time on request.

Costs and fees

No tariffs or duties have to be paid.

Further information

• Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP) (→ BMK)^{German text}
• Waybill notification of the person taking over the waste

Legal bases

• section 18 of the Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz (Waste Management Act – AWG)
• sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 of the Abfallnachweisverordnung (Waste Records Ordinance – ANV)

Link to form

• Waybill^{German text}
• edm.gv.at (→ BMK)^{German text}
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