Animal husbandry; implementation of animal welfare controls
Brief description
According to the Animal Welfare Act, a large number of facilities and animal husbandries (e.g. livestock farms, slaughterhouses, laboratory animal facilities) must be regularly inspected to ensure compliance with legal animal welfare requirements.Description
Inspections are also permitted without concrete suspicion. Private livestock farms are subject to inspection by the veterinary office in the event of suspicion.
Subject to supervision by the competent authority:
- Livestock farms including horse farms,
- Commercial riding and driving businesses
- Facilities that transport animals on a commercial basis,
- Pet shops,
- Animal exchanges
- Circuses and animal shows,
- Animal shelters and similar facilities,
- Organizations that import vertebrate animals (except farm animals) from abroad and sell or broker them for a fee,
- Professional dog trainers,
- Commercial control of vertebrates as pests
- Zoological gardens,
- Facilities where animals are slaughtered,
- Facilities in which
- animal experiments are carried out,
- laboratory animals are bred,
- vertebrate animals are used for the purposes specified in Section 6 (1) sentence 2 no. 4 of the Animal Welfare Act or
- vertebrates are killed for scientific purposes.
The authorities are authorized to issue the necessary orders to remedy conditions that violate animal welfare. These range from verbal orders to remedy identified deficiencies to the removal of animals and the initiation of fine proceedings.
Legal basis
Legal remedy
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