Apply for a site-specific preliminary assessment to determine whether an environmental impact assessment (EIA) is required in mining

You can apply for the site-specific preliminary assessment online via the "BergPass" platform or in writing to your competent mining authority.

Site-specific preliminary assessment online apply:

• Call up the "BergPass" online platform and log in.
  • To register, you will need a BundID and an identity card or residence permit with an active online ID function.
• Call up the application form and fill it out completely and truthfully.
• Upload the required documents as a file and send the application.

Apply directly to the competent authority for a location-based preliminary check:

• Contact your competent mining authority and coordinate the required application documents.
• Submit the application and all required documents.

Further procedural steps:

• The competent authority checks whether an environmental impact assessment is required for approval or carries out a preliminary EIA assessment at the request of the project developer
• If the competent authority has carried out a preliminary assessment, it announces the result of the determination of the EIA obligation to the public and states the main reasons for the existence or non-existence of the EIA obligation.

You will also receive a notification of costs. Pay the fees.

Please contact the Landesamt für Geologie und Bergbau Rheinland-Pfalz (LGB).

• Your company must be active in mining and you are planning a new project.
• You have not yet applied for an environmental impact assessment.

You must provide different information in stages 1 and 2 of the preliminary assessment.

• In stage 1:
  • Information on special local conditions and relevant protection criteria

• In stage 2:
  • Information on the physical characteristics of the entire project and the demolition work,
  • Information on the location of the project and the ecological sensitivity of the areas, as well as on the protected assets that may be affected by the project.
  • Possible significant impacts of the project on the protected assets concerned as a result of
    • the expected residues and emissions and, where applicable, the generation of waste
    • the use of natural resources, in particular land, soil, water, animals, plants and biodiversity.

Results of upstream environmental assessments or other legally required studies on the environmental impacts of the project.

There is no deadline.

• § Section 5 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG)
• § Section 1 Ordinance on the Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining Projects (UVP-V Bergbau)
• Annex to the State Ordinance on Fees in the Field of Environmental Law Rhineland-Palatinate (RLP)

You cannot contest the determination of the EIA obligation individually.

09.12.2024