Keeping animals

If there are any changes in your animal husbandry, you must notify the State Office for Consumer Protection immediately.

Anyone keeping certain animals must notify the State Office for Consumer Protection before starting their activities. If you keep special animal species such as game, you must also notify the competent authority.

The State Office for Consumer Protection must be notified of every beekeeping operation, its change, the migration of bees and the cessation of beekeeping.

Do you want to import or export live or dead animals and plants, or parts or products containing such components? If these are covered by the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), you will need a permit.

If you keep ewes or goats, you can receive coupled income support for keeping them each year. You must submit an application for this to the Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.

If you are a farmer who does not sell cow's milk or cow's milk products, you can receive annual income support for keeping cows. To do so, you must submit an application to the Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.

The animal health certificate provides information on the general state of health of an animal.

What you are allowed to bring with you when traveling to another EU country, entering the EU from outside the EU, or leaving the EU.

Every person who keeps one or more dogs is obliged to deregister them in their municipality of residence at the end of their ownership. After deregistration, the dog tax is waived.

Who is responsible for setting the dog tax?

If you wish to collect dead equidae (e.g. horses, donkeys, mules) and have them cremated, you require a special permit for this.

Anyone whotrains dogs or offers training instruction must have the appropriate permit under the Animal Protection Act (TierSchG).

You require a permit from the competent authority for certain activities involving the commercial handling of animals.

Every person who keeps dogs is obliged to register them in their municipality of residence. The dog tax is based on the registration.

Make sure you submit your advertisement at least one month before the start of the event so that any official requirements can be implemented in good time.

You must notify the lower nature conservation authority of the construction of animal enclosures. Make sure you submit your notification at least one month before you start so that any official requirements can be implemented in good time.

Plan a lead time of at least one month in order to be able to implement any official requirements in good time.