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Application for EU food law approval of food businesses
Service Description
According to EU food legislation, certain businesses that place food of animal origin on the market require approval. These include, for example, slaughterhouses and businesses that process or treat milk, fish, meat and eggs and do not only place these products on the market at the place of production. Commercial kitchens may also fall under the authorization requirement. Exemptions from the licensing requirement exist for primary production businesses, pure transportation or storage activities without temperature regulations and for certain local forms of retail.
Process flow
The approval process begins when the food business operator submits an application to the competent veterinary and food inspection office. After the submitted operating documents have been examined, an on-site inspection is carried out to check whether the statutory hygiene requirements are being complied with. The company receives an approval number with the approval notice. This is affixed to the products as an oval identity mark.
Who should I contact?
Applications must always be submitted via the locally responsible veterinary and food inspection office.
The responsibility for the approval depends on the type of business and the production or processing volume of the business per week. It lies either with the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection (TLV) or the locally responsible veterinary and food monitoring office.
Requirements
Existence of the legally prescribed conditions
Which documents are required?
- Draft of a scaled operating plan showing the flow of materials and personnel and the layout of the machines
- Proof of the food business operator's reliability or self-declaration
- Proof of expertise
What are the fees?
We would like to point out that in accordance with cost item 5.2.1 ThürVwKostOMASGFF (Annex to the List of Administrative Costs - Part C) a fee of 150 to 2,100 euros is charged for the final approval. The exact amount is calculated, among other things, on the basis of the working time required for this. The approval check is carried out by a senior civil servant at an hourly rate of EUR 82.
An additional fee is charged for any previous provisional or temporary approval:
- in accordance with cost item 5.2.2 for a provisional or conditional approval, fees of 75-300 euros and
- in accordance with cost item 5.2.3, a fee of EUR 75-300 for an extension of a conditional authorization.
Legal basis
- § Section 9 Approval of establishments - Animal Food Hygiene Ordinance (Tier-LMHV)
- Article 3 - Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 laying down specific rules for the organization of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption
- Article 31(2)(c) - Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules
- Article 4(2) - Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
- Article 6(3) - Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs
Appeal
- Informal application for approval under food law for the activity to be approved
- Company profile with supplementary sheets
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection
Professionally released on
04.03.2019
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
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Competent Authority
Landratsamt Gotha - Veterinär- und Lebensmittelüberwachungsamt
Address
99867 Gotha
Remark: Access via Hohe Straße
Address
99867 Gotha
Telephone
03621 214-901Opening times
Telephone service hours:
Monday 08:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday 08:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday 08:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Thursday 08:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday 08:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
By appointment only
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Fees: no
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Further Authorities
Address
99947 Bad Langensalza