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2.2 Organizational framework
Provincial Waste Management Plan Styria - 2005
2.2.1 Province of Styria - Departments of the Styrian Provincial Government and District
Administration Offices
Within the administration of the Province of Styria, the following organizational units perform all tasks
pertaining to waste:
• FA 7A Gemeinden und Wahlen (Municipalities and Elections) (municipality supervision -
organization of fees and tariffs)
• FA 13A Umweltrecht und Energiewesen (Environmental Legislation and Energy)
(waste authority for legislation in the field of environmental and plant matters)
• Bezirksverwaltungsbehörden (district administration authorities, authority of first instance)
• Baubezirksleitungen (district administration offices for construction - they assist the district
administration and the Specialized Divisions in the implementation of the assigned tasks)
• FA 17B Technik und Sachverständigendienst (Engineering and Expert Witnesses) (official expert
witness service in the field of waste technology)
• FA 19D Abfall- und Stoffflusswirtschaft (Waste and Material Flow Management) - performance
of technical matters and coordination in the field of waste and material flow management
including the related EU areas as well as supervision on local and regional levels
This includes the following concrete tasks:
• planning related to waste and material flow management:
assisting in the compilation of the Federal Waste Management Plan, updating of the Styrian
Waste Management Concept as Provincial Waste Management Plan, preparing concepts,
carrying out projects and studies, implementing the Austrian National Environment Plan, local
Agenda processes, ecological land development, ecological business advice as Business
Initiative Sustainability (Wirtschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeit - WIN), community cooperations
• subvention matters in the field of waste and material flow management
• providing information and awareness building measures to promote sustainable development
in the field of waste and material flow management, provincial waste management information
system, statistics, surveys, land registers, waste catalogue
• waste management related expert witness service in plant procedures and during controls
2.2.2 Waste management associations
The organizational structures of the Styrian waste management organizations are laid down in § 14
StAWG 2004 and in the Gemeindeverbandsorganisationsgesetz 13 (Law on the organization of
associations of municipalities). The Province of Styria is divided into 17 waste management
associations, whereby one association generally consists of the municipalities of one political district.
The City of Graz independently performs the tasks of a waste management association. The
municipalities within one waste management association are represented in the respective association
meeting, and the members of the association meeting elect the Executive Board. Basically, the
municipalities of one political district form one waste management association.
Exceptions to this classification are the municipalities Radmer and Hieflau, which are part of the
political district Leoben, and the municipality Hohentauern (political district Judenburg), which
nevertheless joined the waste management association Liezen. The municipality Niederöblarn
(political district Liezen) joined the waste management association Schladming, and the two political
districts Mürzzuschlag and Bruck form the "Waste management association Mürzverband".
13 GVOG 1997, Provincial Law Gazette No. 66/1997 as amended in Provincial Law Gazette No. 53/2002
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