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Meat processing: Approval
Service Description
You need an official license to operate a meat processing company.
Prerequisites
- The statutory provisions on compliance with food and feed law as well as animal health and animal welfare are fulfilled.
- There are no facts that justify the assumption that the food business operator does not have the necessary reliability to run the business.
Approval is granted on application after at least one official on-site inspection. It can be granted for a limited period and subject to conditions. Upon approval, your business premises will receive an approval number, which will be made public.
Retail businesses such as artisan butchers without slaughtering or restaurants that do not sell more than a third of their products of animal origin to other local (i.e. not more than 100 km away) retail businesses do not require approval.
Who should I contact?
In principle, the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection is the licensing authority in Thuringia.
By way of derogation, businesses that cut less than 5 tons of meat per week or produce less than 7.5 tons of meat products, minced meat or meat preparations must be approved by the competent veterinary and food inspection authorities.
Which documents are required?
The application must be accompanied by
- an operating summary,
- a draft of a true-to-scale operating plan, from which
- the material and personnel flow and
- the layout of the machines
(in the case of businesses with a craft structure: documents showing the activity planned in the respective rooms) and
- evidence of the reliability of the food business operator
must be attached.
What are the fees?
Depending on the administrative costs, fees of between 120.00 and 900.00 euros are charged in accordance with the Thuringian Administrative Cost Regulations for the Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The license must be applied for sufficiently in advance (preferably three months), as the activity may not be commenced without the issued license.
Legal basis
- Art. 1 para. 2, Art. 6 para. 1-3 Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004
- Art. 15 (5) Regulation (EU) 2017/625
- Article 4(2) Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
- § Section 9 Animal Food Hygiene Ordinance (Tier-LMHV)
- Thuringian Foodstuffs Competence Ordinance (ThürLÜZVO)
- Thuringian Administrative Cost Regulations for the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family (ThürVwKostOMASGFF)
Appeal
The application can be submitted informally, but it cannot be processed conclusively without the attachments listed above.
What else should I know?
Activities other than the processing of meat that require the handling of food of animal origin, such as cheese production or wholesale of food of animal origin, are also generally subject to authorization.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
Competent Authority
Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz (TLV) - Abteilung 2 Gesundheitlicher und technischer Verbraucherschutz
Address
99947 Bad Langensalza
Parking spaces
Besucherparkplätze auf dem Grundstück
Number: 10
Fees: no