Certain waste holders are obliged to keep general records of the accruing waste. These records concern, for example, the type, quantity, origin and whereabouts of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The records must be kept consecutively for each calendar year (specifying the reference period) and separated by the individual types of waste.
Caution
Waste collectors and operators of waste treatment facilities are obligated to keep the records of the waste in electronic form. More information can be found on Annual waste management sheet − records.
Persons obligated to keep records that are neither waste collectors nor operators of waste treatment facilities are free to keep the records in any form (e.g. as a sorted collection of bills, delivery notes which contain the necessary data). They can fulfil the record-keeping requirement for hazardous waste by collecting and keeping the waybills [Begleitscheine].
Also carriers of hazardous waste can fulfil their obligation to keep records by collecting and keeping the waybills, or in that the transferee communicates the waybill data to the register on edm.gv.at (→ BMK).
The obligation to keep records does not apply to:
- Private households
- Agricultural and forestry enterprises that are not required to keep accounts with regard to
- the hazardous waste they produce, provided that it is transferred to a waste collector or an operator of waste treatment facilities authorised to take it back
- the non-hazardous wastes or problematic substances they produce
- Permit-exempt collectors who do not treat the collected waste themselves (i.e. do not merely prepare it for reuse) with regard to the taking back of waste from similar or equivalent products which fulfil the same function. They only have to record the transfers of the waste taken back.
- Carriers with regard to non-hazardous waste where they only transport these wastes on behalf of the waste owner