Hazardous waste and POP waste - Drawing up of a waybill

The Provincial Governor ^{German text}

No tariffs or duties have to be paid.

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

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

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.

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

• Waybill ^{German text}
• edm.gv.at ( → BMK ) ^{German text}
  Entrepreneurs registered in the Business Service Portal USP have the possibility to use EDM and many other online procedures ^{German text} with one single logging into the USP . More detailed information on registration in the USP is available in the online guidance on USP registration online guidance on USP registration ^{German text} .

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.

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