Terms of use for EDM

The following legal or natural persons are authorised to enter, register or report data in accordance with the relevant legal provisions:

  • Persons who are addressees of registration and/or reporting obligations under waste legislation (e.g. waste collectors and operators of waste treatment facilities, original waste producers of hazardous waste),
  • Persons who are addressees of reporting obligations according to the Emission Certificate Act (EZG), EC-PRTR-V or E-PRTR Accompanying Ordinance, EC-K or ChemG 1996,
  • authorised experts or specialist institutions in accordance with AWG 2002,
  • Landfill supervisory bodies,
  • independent testing facilities in accordance with § 10 EZG,
  • ‘Permit-exempt take-back operators’ = persons who dispose of products on a commercial basis and take back waste from these products for transfer to an authorised waste collector or waste processor,
  • Original waste producers of non-hazardous waste (excluding private households) and persons subject to obligations under the EC Waste Shipment Regulation,
  • legal entities that are obliged under the provisions of the Radiation Protection Act 2020,
  • other persons who are authorised or obliged under administrative law to submit notifications to the competent authority via the register.

The following conditions apply to data collection (registration) and the submission of declarations:

  1. Every person obliged to register must register themselves and may not register other persons, unless otherwise regulated in the administrative provisions. Special case: Registered waste collectors or operators of waste treatment facilities are authorised and have the option in their personal space in the EDM to request the authority to register their contractual partners.
  2. Only ONE data entry (registration) is provided for each natural person and each company. Branches (dependent branches) must be entered as locations in the company's master data if necessary.
  3. Persons obliged to register and those obliged to co-operate must keep their data up to date; changes to the data must be made in the register without delay. Special case: If data is specially labelled by the authority in accordance with § 22a Section 5 AWG 2002 and cannot be changed directly by the registered person in the register, the authority must be contacted.
  4. If multiple entries (registrations) were accidentally made in the register, the registered person must have their data merged into a single data record [Information: Technical Support of Umweltbundesamt GmbH, edm-helpdesk@umweltbundesamt.at, Tel.: +43 (0)1 31304 8000].
  5. Every legal or natural person whose data is recorded (registered) in the register is assigned a GLN to identify them. GLNs are also assigned to identify facilities and sites. The assigned GLN may only be used in accordance with the provisions of administrative law, in particular the provisions of the AWG 2002 and associated ordinances, the EZG, the EPER-V, the E-PRTR Accompanying Ordinance, the EG-K and the ChemG 1996.

 

Further enquiries

Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management
Directorate – EDM Programme Environment
Stubenbastei 5
A-1010 Wien
E-Mail: edm@bmluk.gv.at
Version/Datum: 01.04.2025