Standardisation und approvals

Consequences of the judgement of the European Court of Justice for small wastewater treatment plants and their users –

All standards for small wastewater treatment plants are still in process and it can be assumed that the judgement of the European Court of Justice has some influence on the content of the stan-dard EN 12566. At the very moment it is the main question how Germany can include the established principles of the technical approval into European or national standards or technical rules in a way that

a new intervention of the European Commission can be excluded,

the quality of the German products is not reduced,

the environment is not affected by the effluent of treated wastewater from SWW plants,

techni...

Issue 02/2015 Actual developments

Standards for small wastewater treatment plants

German and European standards are well established technical standards and they reflect the state of the art. Standards are a good instrument to manufacture comparable products and to distribute them...

Issue 02/2014 The work for the European Standard for small wastewater treatment plants EN 12566

A never ending but always actual story –

Often inexperienced users of standards believe that standards are some kind of Ten Commandments of technology that cannot be changed any more. But standards reflect the accepted rules of...

Issue 02/2017 Consequences of the ECJ judgement

Amendment of the Waste Water Ordinance – Implications for the enforcement

So far, the German Institute for Construction Technology (DIBt) has granted national technical approvals (abZ) for small wastewater treatment plants manufactured in series production. The national...

Issue 02/2018 DWA Worksheet 221 or industry guideline on small wastewater treatment plants

Quo vadis?

In October 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that the Federal Republic of Germany violated the obligations arising from Directive 89/106/EEC because it created additional...

Issue 02/2017 Reliability of small wastewater treatment plants in Germany

New technical assessment rules in consequence of the ECJ judgment

In October 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered that the Federal Republic of Germany violated the obligations arising from Directive 89/106/EEC. Large parts of Part B of the...

BFT 02/2016