Animal disease control
Performance specification
The following tasks are included in this area:
- Animal and epidemic hygiene
- Issue of certificates of origin and health
- Surveillance of animal holdings at risk of disease
- Appraisal of sick, fallen and killed animals
- Valuation and compensation
- Supervision of holdings and establishments
- Expert examinations
- Combating zoonoses
- Protective vaccinations
- Disposal of animal carcasses
- Combating epizootic diseases in accordance with the Federal Catalogue of MeasuresApplications / Forms
- Application for permission to drive a flock of sheep across district boundaries
- Application for permission to keep pigs outdoors
- Registration of beekeepers and their apiaries
- Fish farms - authorisation/registration
- Cattle for fattening kept indoors - exemption from the BHV 1 examination requirement
- Leaflet for farmers, livestock traders and veterinarians on biosecurity measures in cattle farms
- Beekeeper's leaflet Moving colonies
- Canine distemper information
- Reporting date sheep/goats
- Reporting date pig
What else should I know?
Stock register
- for poultry farms
- for cattle farms
- for sheep / for goats; birth and death details
- for sheep / for goats; movement data
- for pig farms
Bluetongue
- Shipment regulations, as at 18.5.2019
- Keeper declaration for the movement of calves to the Netherlands
- Keeper's declaration for the national movement of animals for slaughter
- Animal keeper declaration for the movement of animals within the bluetongue restricted zone
- Keeper's declaration calves, basic immunisation before laying
- Keeper declaration calves, basic immunisation during pregnancy
- Keeper's declaration for the national movement of ovine and caprine animals
- Facilitated movement regulations for calves within Germany status 01.04.2020
- Keeper declaration on the facilitated movement rules for calves - Status 01.04.2020

