Asbestos removal

Are you not the owner of the property, but the tenant?
If so, contact the landlord first.

Make the notification at least 4 weeks before you want to start demolition. In the following cases, make the notification no later than 5 working days in advance:

1. Your company performs repair or mutation maintenance work on a part of the building containing asbestos. This only applies if during those 4 weeks the building is unnecessarily vacant or impeding its use.
2. The landlord performs maintenance work.
3. The resident who removes bonded asbestos up to a maximum of 35 m2 per parcel. Examples include:

• bolted corrugated sheets with bonded asbestos fibers (not roof slates)
• floor tiles
• non-glued floor covering

• name and address owner of the building containing asbestos
• name and address performer of work
• address, cadastral number and type of building
• the dates and times you will demolish
• how you are going to demolish
• details of the waste and how you will dispose of it
• A scale site drawing of the plot showing the structures to be demolished

Asbestos Inventory Report

In these cases, you also send along an asbestos inventory report:

• You are removing more than 35^{m2 of} asbestos-containing material.
• You are removing asbestos from a building built before 1994.

The report must be prepared by a certified asbestos inventory company.

You can start removing asbestos 4 weeks after your notification. If you filed a notification for work that you were required to notify no later than 5 business days in advance, you can begin demolition after 5 business days.

If you have been notified that your notification is incomplete, you may not start yet. You must first make a new notification. The deadline will then begin again.

Do you disagree with the municipality's decision?
Then file an objection within 6 weeks.

If you are not sure if a particular material contains asbestos, check the asbestos roadmap to get an idea of what materials may contain asbestos. Or do the step-by-step What should I do if I have asbestos?

You can find all the rules about asbestos in the overview of asbestos regulations. 

Only a certified company may examine whether asbestos is present. At www.ascert.nl you can search to see if a company is certified as an asbestos removal company.