Apply for exemption from the water abstraction fee
Description
If you withdraw or discharge water from surface waters, you must pay a water abstraction charge. This also applies if you withdraw, extract, convey or discharge groundwater.
Under certain conditions, you can apply for an exemption from the water abstraction charge and, in exceptional cases, be exempt from payment.in whole or in part.
- Your company withdraws water for commercial, agricultural or forestry purposes on such a large scale that its competitiveness is significantly and sustainably impaired by the payment of the water abstraction charge.
- You may be exempted from paying the water abstraction charge if ecological, water management or other public interests require this. require this.
- Application for exemption
- Proof of hardship, for example:
- Profit and loss account
- Management reports on the annual financial statements for the financial year in question and the previous two financial years
- Documents on the price calculation for the financial year in question
Fee: free of charge
None.
You can lodge a complaint with the competent administrative court within one month of notification of the decision.
Please contact the State Administration Office.
- Please submit the completed forms to the competent authorityauthority.
- The competent authority will check your application.
- You will then receive a decision.
Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of Saxony-Anhalt
16.06.2025
Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of Saxony-Anhalt
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06118 Halle (Saale)
06003 Halle (Saale)
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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Appointments can also be made outside office hours by individual arrangement. Please note that individual areas have different opening hours. These can be found on the respective website of the department.
