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Request exemption intervention on organic animals

Service Description

If you are a certified organic company and want to perform procedures on your animals (dehorning calves, docking the tails of lambs), then you need permission from the competent body before the procedure. This body verifies the fulfillment of the requirements set by law.

Process flow

They apply for the exemption via their inspection body to the competent body:

  • Request form from control body
  • Fill in and sign the form
  • Send to the inspection body
  • The inspection body checks and confirms the information and forwards the application to the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas (TLLLR).
  • TLLLR decides on the application and sends the decision to the entrepreneur and a copy to the inspection body.

Who should I contact?

Please contact your control office.

Competent authority

Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas / Department 21 / Organic Control

Requirements

  • Interventions must be justified (improvement of the health, well-being or hygiene conditions of the animals or if occupational safety would otherwise be jeopardized).
  • Interventions must be carried out by qualified personnel
  • Any suffering of the animals must be kept to a minimum by administering appropriate anesthetics and/or painkillers
  • Operations must be carried out only at the appropriate age (dehorning calves no more than 6 weeks old, docking lambs no more than 7 days old)

Which documents are required?

  • Completed application
  • Certificate of veterinary surgeon, if necessary

What are the fees?

The notice is subject to a fee;
between 5 and 50.000€ depending on the effort and cost benefit;

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Timely with birth planning (for dehorning calves must not be older than 6 weeks / for docking lambs not older than 7 days)

Processing duration

4 to 8 weeks

Legal basis

Applications / forms

An appeal against the decision may be lodged within one month of its notification. The objection must be filed with the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas in writing or on record.

Appeal

Forms/online services available: Yes Form, no online service

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: No

Personal appearance required: No

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.

Technically approved by

Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas

Professionally released on

24.11.2021

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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