Part A - General 
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3 Deviations and amendments 
The Eurocodes shall apply; in addition, the DIN standards in their respective latest white copy 
versions shall also be applied. The approval authority reserves the right to exclude individual 
standards or parts thereof from the obligation to apply the above standards. 
Deviations from the standards and requirements established here are possible providing these 
are appropriate based on new knowledge in general or with regard to the specific features of 
the project, or serve the aforementioned protective purposes in at least an equivalent manner. 
These shall be marked accordingly and their equivalence justified vis-à-vis the approval au 
thority. The approval authority reserves the right to consent to deviations and amendments 
and may engage an appropriate inspector accordingly. 
A request for deviation shall be submitted by the applicant, resp. the approval holder, in a 
timely fashion so as to ensure that the decision, incl. the stipulations contained therein, may 
be integrated into the respective project schedule. All deviations shall be indicated accordin 
gly; they must be justified and assessed by the appointed inspector. 
The approval authority shall decide on the admissibility of a deviation on a case-by-case ba 
sis, whereby it exclusively reserves the right to commission an assessment by an appropriate 
assessor at the expense of the applicant. 
The standards referred to in each respective section shall be supplemented by further codes 
of practice, regulations and recommendations, in as far as they do not take matters concer 
ning the dimensioning of foundation elements and support structures for offshore structures 
into account. 
Further technical codes of practice - in their respective current version - may also be referred 
to in cases where no regulations are stipulated in the above-mentioned provisions or where, 
due to the special nature of offshore structures, these either cannot be applied or cannot be 
applied practically. 
With respect to the application of codes of practice that contain offshore-specific deviations 
from, resp. amendments to, the German and European standards quoted above in the res 
pective sections, the following procedural principles shall apply: 
• All deviations shall be submitted to the approval authority and accordingly justified and re 
presented in detail. These requests must also contain a statement as to the equivalence of 
the chosen approach with that specified in the standard. The deviation request must be as 
sessed by the appointed inspector. 
• All amendments shall be submitted to the approval authority, accordingly justified and re 
presented in detail and must be analysed for admissibility by an expert. The amendment 
request must be assessed by the appointed inspector. 
4 Updating 
This standard represents the current state of the art or, failing that, the state of current scien 
tific and technical progress. As the future implementation of further projects, in particular, is 
expected to generate new knowledge and lead to further technical developments, this stan 
dard shall be adapted in line with ongoing developments at appropriate intervals of time.