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Report rats
Service Description
Rats usually occur where they find sufficient food, shelter and nesting opportunities. They transmit dangerous diseases. Droppings and urine cause odor nuisance and health hazard.
If you want to report rats, it is important to note the following:
- Property owners must hire a pest control/ exterminator themselves.
- Tenants must first ask the property owner to remove the problem. (If the landlord refuses to do so, the tenant may contact the appropriate regulatory agency. In this case, a copy of the tenant's written request must be available).
- If the culprit is demonstrably a third party, please contact the public order office in writing.
- If rats are found in public places, contact the responsible public order office.
Issuance of the permit according to § 11 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 8 letter e of the Animal Protection Act
Who should I contact?
Please contact the responsible public order office in your municipality or city.
Which documents are required?
- Application: Form
- Proof of the necessary expertise of the applicant (e.g. appropriate professional training)
- Proof of the necessary expertise of the employees (e.g. appropriate professional training)
- Proof of personal reliability of the applicant (certificate of good conduct)
- Proof of premises, means used and control methods applied
- Extract from the central business register
What are the fees?
The cost of the pest controller/chamber hunter shall be borne by the property owner.
In accordance with Annex Part C No. 3.1.8 of the Thuringian Administrative Cost Regulations for the Business Division of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health (ThürVwKostOMSFG) (see also under Documents).
What else should I know?
For the commercial control of pests, a permit is required in accordance with § 11 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 8 letter e Animal Protection Act. Anyone who carries out the above-mentioned activities independently, systematically, continuously and with the intention of making a profit is acting on a commercial basis.
Pursuant to Section 4 (1a) of the Animal Welfare Act, persons who regularly anesthetize or kill vertebrate animals for the purpose of killing on a professional or commercial basis must provide proof of their expertise to the competent authority. Accordingly, anyone who stuns or kills vertebrates for the purpose of killing within the scope of their profession (i.e. also as an employee, even a sideline activity is sufficient) or commercially (i.e. independently, systematically, continuously and with the intention of making a profit) must provide proof of their expertise.
Stunning or killing takes place on a regular basis if it is foreseeably repeated at manageable time intervals. Accordingly, a certificate of competence is required, for example, for a janitor who carries out rodent control in a building from time to time. Paragraph 1a must therefore also be interpreted to mean that persons who repeatedly kill vertebrates as pests in connection with their professional position (including members of food processing companies) require proof of expertise.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
Competent Authority
Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Stadtverwaltung - Tierschutz und Tierarzneimittelüberwachung
Address
99084 Erfurt
