Within the meaning of the Legacy Agreement, long-term liabilities in coal mining are permanent measures arising as a result of mining operations by RAG after the termination of subsidies for coal mining; including:

• Measures of mine-water drainage
• Measures of groundwater treatment at contaminated sites and corresponding aftercare measures
• Measures, especially polder measures, for administration, processing and/or removal of permanent subsidence and surface damage due to coal mining

There is a clear distinction between long-term liabilities and damage due to mining subsidence. Subsidence damage is damage occurring to buildings and properties as a result of mining operations. Usually, rock movements such as submergence of ground, tilting, mirage and thrust boring cause this kind of damage.

Solely the RAG Corporation, not the RAG Foundation, adjusts subsidence damage. Our special »Service-Center Bergschäden« (Service Centre for Subsidence Damage) can be reached at the following free service hotline:

Rhine / Ruhr

0800 / 27 27 271 (within Germany)

Saar

0800 / 10 10 204 (within Germany)

Alternatively, you can contact our “Service Center Bergschäden” (Service Centre for Subsidence Damage) via the following contact form:

Online contact form to declare subsidence damage

Address:
RAG Aktiengesellschaft
BGB
Postfach
44620 Herne