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Part A - General 
In accordance with Art. 5 para. 2 SeeAnlV, the approval authority may approve individual ins 
tallation measures or commissioning subject to the granting of respective approval upon con 
firmation that the prescribed requirements have been accordingly complied with. Upon re 
quest of the approval authority, this confirmation shall be submitted in the form of an expert 
opinion compiled by a recognised expert. For the purpose of this standard, this shall be the 
appointed inspector. 
Accordingly, demonstrating compliance with the prescribed standards represents the basis 
for approval and for establishing that the design, installation and operation of the system con 
form with the regulatory requirements. 
2.2 Subject matter of this standard 
This standard regulates the structural components of offshore structures in the Exclusive Eco 
nomic Zone (EEZ). 
These include offshore wind turbines, cabling within the park, measurement masts, offshore 
stations and power transmission cabling systems. 
The offshore structures, in particular offshore wind turbine and offshore station supporting 
structures, are considered both in terms of their individual components and as an overall sys 
tem. The sections to be completed are basically divided into the following project phases 
which are described in more detail in Part B1 and Tables 1 (offshore wind turbines) and 2 (off 
shore stations): 
• Development 
• Design 
• Implementation, i.e. production, loading transport, construction, resp. installation, commis 
sioning 
• Operation and 
• Decommissioning. 
The specification to comply with the state of the art or, failing that, the state of current scien 
tific and technical progress, relates to the conclusion of each specific project phase, resp. in 
the case of the construction phase to the completion of each respective construction step. 
The individual project phases are concluded upon the granting of respective approval accor 
ding to this Standard Design. 
For each respective approval, verified documents must be submitted to the approval autho 
rity. Further details are described in Part B. The examination must be initiated by the appli 
cant, resp. the approval holder who shall appoint an inspector in good time. This inspector 
shall then examine the documents with respect to their completeness, consistency and inte 
grity, resp. plausibility. With the support of the BAM and BAW, the approval authority shall only 
subject the submitted documentation to a plausibility check. 
2.3 Standard directives for approval practice 
Approvals granted previously for materials regulated here contained directives that more ex 
plicitly defined the project, some of which can be viewed as standardising practice, even if 
they are subject to continuous examination in what is currently a dynamic development pro 
cess.