Animal diseases

Animal disease control serves to protect humans and animals.

Animal slaughter: designation of a responsible person with authority to issue instructions

Do you or your employees slaughter, stun or bleed animals commercially? If so, you must appoint a responsible person with authority to issue instructions for reasons of animal welfare.

Animal welfare

Animal welfare refers to the protection of animals living in the wild as well as those living in human care.

Animal welfare - apply for funding

As a livestock farmer, you can receive support for the introduction or maintenance of particularly animal-friendly husbandry methods through animal welfare promotion.

Animals: permit for commercial breeding, keeping, trade and other activities

For many activities in the commercial handling of animals you need a permit from the competent authority. You can find out more about this here.

Apply for a permit change for the withdrawal and discharge of water from surface waters

Do you have permission to withdraw water from surface waters and want to change your plans? Then you must apply for a permit amendment.

Apply for a permit under water law for the construction, expansion or use of rail-specific infrastructure

If you want to build, expand or operate Deutsche Bahn operating facilities and this is associated with impacts on bodies of water, you must apply for a permit under water law from the Federal Railway Authority.

Apply for a special permit to intervene on organic animals

If you are a certified organic company and wish to carry out procedures on your animals, you can obtain an exemption under certain conditions.

Apply for admission to the falconry examination

Before you can apply for a falconry license, you must have passed a limited hunter's test or a falconry test in addition to the hunter's test.

Apply for animal testing projects

If you want to carry out an animal experiment on vertebrates or cephalopods, you need prior approval from the competent authority.

Apply for derogation to feed synthetic vitamins in organic farming

If you are a certified organic company and want to feed synthetic vitamins (A, D, E) to your ruminants, you can obtain a derogation.

Apply for information on the contaminated site or soil protection register

Would you like to know whether there is a suspicion of contaminated sites or harmful soil changes on a property? Then you can apply for information from the register of contaminated sites from the relevant authority.

Apply for new vineyards for wine

If you want to grow wine on new vineyards, you generally need a permit from the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE).

Apply for the purchase of conventional breeding animals for organic farms

If you are a certified organic company and want to include conventional animals in your herd, you can obtain a derogation under certain conditions.

Apply for the removal or alteration of protected trees (natural monuments, landscape features, avenues)

If you want to cut down a specially protected tree, you need a special permit.

Apply for tree cutting permit

If you want to remove a tree or other woody plant between March and September, you need a permit to do so.

Apply for zoo permit

If you want to run a zoo, you need permission from the relevant conservation authority.

Applying for a permit to import and export protected plant and animal species

Do you want to import or export live or dead animals and plants, or parts or products with components thereof? If these fall under the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), you will need a permit.

Applying for a permit to withdraw and discharge headwater from surface waters

If you want to extract water for a diversion power plant from an above-ground body of water and discharge it again, you can apply for a water permit from the competent authority.

Applying for approval of a main operating plan for mining

If your company wants to explore, extract and process certain mineral resources, you must draw up a main operating plan, among other things. You must apply to the competent authority for approval of this main operating plan.

Appoint animal welfare officers

As the operator of facilities where animal experiments and similar activities are carried out, you must appoint one or more animal welfare officers and notify the competent authority of the appointment.

Bathing Water Quality

During the bathing season (May 15 to September 15 of each year), experts from the health offices inspect the natural bathing waters in Thuringia at monthly intervals. They assess...

Beekeeping - Apply for funding

If you run a beekeeping business in Thuringia, you can receive a subsidy for keeping and breeding bees. You must apply for this in writing to the competent authority.

Biotope protection

Here you will find information on biotope protection.

Discharge of wastewater into private wastewater systems Permit

If you want to discharge commercial/industrial wastewater into a private wastewater facility or sewer system, you usually need a permit.

Discharge of wastewater into public sewage systems Permit

If you want to discharge commercial/industrial wastewater into a public wastewater facility or sewer system, you usually need a permit.

EMAS register entry

At the end of the EMAS certification process, you can have your organization entered in the EMAS register.

Environmental Company Information System of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (Ecofinder)

The IHK ecoFinder is Germany's largest portal for organizations and companies from the environmental and energy sector. Here you can find competent providers of products and...

Establishing a right of first refusal under nature conservation law

Exercising the right of first refusal under nature conservation law

Farm animal husbandry - Display

You must notify the competent authority of the keeping of farm animals. This concerns the following types of animals: Cattle Pigs Sheep Goats Equidae Chickens Ducks ...

Feed control

Safe feed is a prerequisite for safe food and healthy animals. This is why feed companies are monitored and feed is tested.

Fisheries - Keep annual report on eel stocking

If you release eels into waters in Thuringia, you must record this and submit it to the competent authority if necessary.

Fishing - Applying for a special permit for closed seasons and minimum sizes

If you wish to fish during closed seasons and/or above the minimum size limits, you must apply for a special permit from the supreme fishing authority.

Fishing - Applying for authorization for electrofishing (fishing with electricity)

If you wish to use electrofishing for the investigation of fish stocks, you need the approval of the competent authority.

Forest - clear cutting permit application

Sou want to carry out a clearcut?

Then you must apply for permission to clearcut to the lower forestry authority.

Forest first afforestation - apply for permission

Do you want to create new forest and do something to bind carbon dioxide, enhance the landscape in areas with little forest and do something against erosion? If so, you need to create new forest and apply for permission for initial afforestation from the lower forestry authority.

Forest products: Commercial collection - permission

For the commercial collection of mushrooms, berries and herbs, you need a permit from the respective forest owner.

Forest Thuringia state program for coping with the consequences of extreme weather events in the forest - submit an application for a grant

The state program supports private and municipal forest owners as well as recognized forestry associations with grants for special measures to cope with the consequences of extreme weather events in the forest.

Forestry - conversion of forest to another type of use Apply for a permit

You want to convert forest to another type of use? You want to clear forest to use the land for another purpose? Then you must apply for permission to convert forest to the lower forestry authority.

Granting approval for the slaughter of poultry from special forms of husbandry

You must apply for permission from the competent authority for the slaughter of poultry kept in special husbandry systems.

Health and safety in the workplace

Here you will find information on occupational health and safety as well as applicable laws, regulations and employers' obligations.

Home slaughter

If you wish to slaughter pets or ungulates yourself at home, you must register this with the competent authority. Home slaughter is the slaughter of animals outside of a commercial slaughterhouse.

Hornets - granting of species protection exemptions for nest relocation, nest removal

Hornets are useful and peaceful insects. A large hornet colony can feed up to 500 grams of insects to its brood in one day. There is also no increased risk of being stung by a...

Hunting - Game damage compensation - File a claim

Have you discovered game or hunting damage on your agricultural or forestry property? Then you are entitled to compensation under certain conditions.

Independently classify water-polluting chemical substances

If you or your company operate a facility in which chemical substances hazardous to water are handled, you must independently classify the substances used into a water hazard class (WGK) and notify the Federal Environment Agency.

Landscape conservation Promotion

Here you will find information on landscape conservation in Thuringia.

Landscape protection

Landscape protection includes all measures for the protection and maintenance of a section of the earth's surface in which special protection of nature and landscape is required...

Livestock trade (commercial) - Display

If you want to trade in livestock commercially or transport livestock commercially or as part of animal production based on the division of labor, or operate a collection center,...

National Park

National parks aim primarily at the large-scale protection and free development of untouched nature. "Let nature be nature" is therefore the motto of these areas. By establishing...

Natura 2000

Natura 2000 is a system of protected areas established by the European Union on a uniform basis throughout Europe. It comprises the areas designated by the member states in...

Nature Conservation

The aim of nature conservation is to preserve nature and the landscape on the basis of their own value and as the foundations of human life. Since it is becoming increasingly...

Nature conservation: compensation and replacement measures

Projects that have an unavoidable impact on nature must be offset by nature conservation and landscape management measures.

Nature conservation: Intervention in nature and landscape - approval

Interventions in nature and the landscape may only be carried out with prior approval.

Nature parks

Large areas are designated as nature parks, which are particularly suitable for recreation due to their natural characteristics and beauty. The preservation of the diversity of...

Notification of facilities for handling substances hazardous to water, application for suitability determination

The construction of a facility for handling substances hazardous to water, you must notify the competent authority under certain conditions.

Notification of facilities for the storage and filling of liquid manure, slurry, solid manure or silage leachate

If you want to build or significantly change a facility for storing and filling liquid manure, slurry, solid manure or silage leachate, you may have to notify the competent authority.

Notification of waiver of the exercise of a right of first refusal under nature conservation law

Plant protection equipment: Testing of new equipment and application for entry in the descriptive list

As a manufacturer or commercial supplier, you can have the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) check whether your plant protection equipment complies with the requirements of the Plant Protection Act.

Program for the Promotion of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Measures in Thuringia" (NALAP)

The "Program for the Promotion of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Measures in Thuringia" (NALAP) can: 1. funding through the conclusion of contracts, e.g. for the ...

Receipt of annual reports, which are to be prepared by landfill operators and contain information on landfill operations

Digital transmission facilitates the mandatory submission of annual landfill reports. Only relevant for landfill operators.

Recreation and entering the open countryside

Access to the open countryside on roads and paths as well as on unused ground areas for the purpose of recreation is permitted to all and is governed by for the forest...

Recycling and waste disposal

Here you will find information on requirements and conditions for handling waste from professional and commercial activities.

Register laying hen farm and assign identification number

If you want to market eggs from your laying hen farm or your laying hen husbandry, you must register it under certain conditions. Upon registration, you will be assigned an identification number.

Registration of companies according to Art. 65 of the Plant Health Regulation (EU) 2016/2031

You want to import plants subject to certification / passport obligation into the EU? You want to move plants with plant passport obligation within the EU?

Retroactively recognize agricultural land for organic farming

Areas that have demonstrably not been treated with substances prohibited in organic farming in the past can, under certain conditions, be retroactively recognized as organic areas.

Show change of location of animal exhibitions and animal markets (e.g. traveling circus)

If you wish to exhibit animals at different locations, you must notify the competent authority in advance.

Soil protection

Along with water and air, soil is an indispensable basis of life for humans, animals and plants. It fulfills a variety of functions. Among other things, soil is essential for the...

Substances hazardous to water: Specialist company - Proof of specialist company status

Upon request, specialist companies must provide proof of their specialist company status to the lower water authority in whose district they operate. It must also be possible to...

Water supervision

If you are aware of possible water hazards, you can report this to the lower water authority.

Waters Permission to use revoked

You want to give up your existing permit wastewater into a surface water and / or via infiltration into groundwater? Then an application for revocation must be submitted to the competent authority for this purpose.