The Executive Board is responsible for all tasks of the association insofar as the Statutes do not transfer these to other institutions of the association.

The Executive Board consists of the chairman, his deputy, the chairman of the Quality Committee and 10 further members. The Executive Board is to include: 1 member from each of the DWA Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall (previously ATVDVWK) and the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Abwassertechnik e.V. (GFA) as representatives of the bodies sponsoring the Association, a representative of the European association as defined in § 3 (1) no. 2 and one representative of the associations representing the businesses involved in sewer construction (representative of an advisory body, e.g. an advisory board). A company, group of companies or corporate group may be represented on the Executive Board by not more than one representative.