Cattle Traffic Ordinance

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Basic data
Title: Ordinance on protection
against the spread
of animal diseases in cattle traffic
Short title: Cattle Traffic Ordinance
Abbreviation: ViehVerkV
Type: Federal Ordinance
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Issued on the basis of: Section 7 (1), Section 17b (1), Section 17h No. 1, Section 73a, Section 79 (1) TierSG
Legal matter: Special administrative law , hazard prevention law
References : 7831-1-54-2
Original version from: July 6, 2007
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1274, 1967 )
Entry into force on: July 14, 2007
New announcement from: May 26, 2020
( BGBl. I p. 1170 )
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Livestock Transport Regulation , complete regulation to protect against the spread of animal diseases in livestock transport (ViehVerkV), is a federal ordinance for the livestock to prevent the spread of animal diseases in livestock transport . It was issued on July 6, 2007, and was revised on March 3, 2010. The ordinance was issued to cover several European directives on animal disease control; corresponding ordinances and laws also exist in other member states of the European Union .

basis

The regulation serves to regulate the cattle traffic to prevent the spread and spread of animal diseases in Germany and beyond. The currently valid Cattle Traffic Ordinance was set up on the basis of several EU directives to contain animal diseases during transport and trade, especially when dealing with horses , cattle and pigs :

  1. Council Directive 90/426 / EEC of 26 June 1990 laying down the animal health provisions for the movement of equidae and for their importation from third countries(OJ L 224 of 18 August 1990, p. 42, L 296 of 27 October 1990, p. 66),
  2. Council Directive 90/427 / EEC of 26 June 1990 laying down zootechnical and genealogical regulations for intra-Community trade in equidae(OJ L 224 of 18 August 1990, p. 55),
  3. Council Directive 92/102 / EEC of November 27, 1992 on the identification and registration of animals(OJ L 355 of December 5, 1992, p. 32),
  4. Directive 2000/15 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 2000 amending Council Directive 64/432 / EEC on the regulation of animal health issues relating to intra-Community trade in cattle and pigs(OJ L 105 of 3 May 2000, P. 34). This is based on CouncilDirective 64/432 / EEC on the regulation of animal health issues in intra-Community trade in cattle and pigs.

content

The Cattle Traffic Ordinance regulates the accommodation, transport and marking of farm animals for cattle exhibitions, cattle markets and slaughterhouses, as well as the handling of animals in cattle trading companies, transport companies and collection points from the point of view of combating animal diseases .

Animal transport and cattle loading points

Animal transporter

In the area of animal transport , the Cattle Traffic Ordinance regulates both the basic nature and equipment of cattle transport vehicles as well as the cattle loading point . In the case of vehicles, the ordinance stipulates that vehicles and trailers that are used to transport live cattle must, on the one hand, be designed in such a way that “animal waste, litter or feed cannot seep out or fall out during transport”, and on the other hand they must be "easy to clean and disinfect". While private vehicles, which primarily transport the stock between the stables and pasture areas, are excluded from this, “Railway wagons and rooms and parts of rooms in railway wagons, aircraft and ships that are used to transport live cattle” are included in the regulation.

Loading of pigs into a truck in Russia

For cattle loading points where cattle from different owners are regularly loaded, unloaded, reloaded or weighed, there are various hygiene regulations and a notification obligation that also includes changes in the operation. The hygiene regulations include good lighting and easy cleaning and disinfection , which must be given for all parts of the system. Pressurized water for quick cleaning and a facility for cleaning and disinfecting hands and shoes must be available. In addition, there is the demand for paved paths and places with a soil impermeable to liquids and a connection to the sewer system as well as the establishment of suitable dung storage facilities for collecting manure and litter material. Cattle showing visible signs of communicable disease may not be loaded, unloaded, reloaded, or weighed. In addition, further requirements (fenced-in places, separate accommodation, tie-down devices) can be ordered by the competent authority, which can also decide on exceptions for small cattle loading points.

Regulations for trade, exhibitions and slaughterhouses

Especially for the exhibition, trade and slaughterhouses , the cattle traffic ordinance stipulates reporting obligations and comprehensive hygiene regulations in order to prevent a potential spread of animal diseases. Places where livestock markets and exhibitions take place must be fenced in and must only be accessible to the livestock through monitorable entrances and exits. As with cattle loading points, all areas where cattle are loaded and unloaded must be paved and easy to clean and disinfect. In addition, there must be a special place for cattle transport vehicles with a liquid-impermeable floor and pressurized water. The livestock must be housed in well-lit and easy-to-clean accommodations with a floor impermeable to liquids. In addition, there must be rooms for isolating animals with disease or suspicious disease and a facility for storing manure. Special official regulations and exceptions are also permitted here. Similar hygiene regulations as for accommodation at events also apply to guest stables .

Special regulations apply to the animals' movement to the events. Permanent identification of the animals and an official veterinary inspection of the animals are required here. The buoyancy must also take place under sufficient artificial lighting or in daylight. For slaughterhouses, the Cattle Traffic Ordinance only regulates the special permits for driving cattle from a slaughterhouse market or a slaughterhouse. Animals may only be aborted from the slaughterhouse if they are misdirected, pregnant or are taken to an accommodation where they will remain until slaughter.

Numerous regulations apply to the livestock trade. The trade in livestock, as well as handling in the form of transports or collection points, requires registration with the responsible authorities. Livestock trading companies, collection points and transport companies need official approval and must comply with animal health regulations accordingly. The relevant companies are recorded, registered and reported to the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection , which publishes the approvals with a registration key in the Federal Gazette . If the requirements are not met, the authorities can order the suspension of the approval until the deficiencies identified have been remedied.

Disinfection regulations

For transport vehicles and equipment as well as for the infrastructure of trading companies, at cattle markets and at exhibitions that come into direct contact with cattle, strict hygiene regulations apply in accordance with the cattle traffic ordinance. The means of transport as well as cattle loading points, loading ramps and rooms for accommodating the cattle as well as all access routes must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected within a specified period of time after use. Dung, litter and feed residues that arise during cleaning must be disposed of harmlessly or treated in such a way that animal disease pathogens are killed.

Documentation, labeling and registration

For trading and transport companies as well as for other people who deal with changing livestock, extensive documentation obligations for livestock via certificates of origin, castration and claw care control books, health certificates, livestock trade and transport control books , disinfection control books and cover registers apply . These documents must be kept for more than three years after their use.

Ear tags on a domestic cattle

Owners of many types of livestock must display and register data on keeping and changes in stocks; They are also subject to labeling and other documentation requirements. The obligation to register with the competent authority or authorized bodies applies to keepers of cattle, sheep and goats, pigs, solipeds and poultry including quails , house pigeons , ratites , while keepers of game animals , camelids and other cloven-hoofed animals are only obliged to notify and carry an inventory register. The individual identification of the animals is mandatory for cattle, goats and sheep, pigs and equidae. For the registration of cattle, sheep, goat and pig holdings, which is now mostly carried out online, the origin and information system for animals , abbreviated HI-Tier or HIT, is operated as a database, which now also takes on other tasks of data acquisition and data exchange.

Bovine

According to Article 4 of EU Regulation No. 1760/2000 for the introduction of a system for the identification and registration of cattle and the labeling of beef and beef products, cattle are permanently identified with an officially issued ear tag and registered using their data. This regulation provides for a standardized yellow ear tag with black letters, which contains an abbreviation for the country of origin (e.g. DE for Germany, DK for Denmark) in Germany, a two-digit number for the federal state and an individual number of up to 8 digits as a registration number . This identifier is also shown as a barcode on the stamp. In exceptional cases, especially with small cattle breeds, the ear tag can be reduced in size and equipped with a read-only passive transponder. Owners are also obliged to keep a herd register of their cattle and to notify the authorities or authorized body of changes in herds such as births, transports, purchases and deaths. In addition, a master data sheet is created by the competent authority , which, in addition to the ear tag number, also contains further information on the beef. For the transport of cattle, a cattle passport must also be issued and carried, which can, however, be replaced by a master data sheet with the requested data.

Sheep, goats and pigs

For sheep and goats, the labeling requirement is based on Council Regulation (EC) No. 21/2004 of December 17, 2003, introducing a system for the identification and registration of sheep and goats for all animals born or placed in the herd. The identification of these animals consists of an ear tag transponder with a bolus transponder as the first identification and a second identification in the form of an ear tag, which essentially corresponds to the ear tags in cattle, an ankle cuff or a tattoo in the ear. Here, too, there is the obligation to register and to keep an inventory register and accompanying documents during transport. Corresponding rules apply to pig farming.

Equine

Equine passport

Registration and labeling obligations apply to domestic horses on the basis of Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 of the Commission of 6 June 2008 for the implementation of Council Directives 90/426 / EEC and 90/427 / EEC with regard to methods for the identification of Equidae. This also implements European regulations for the establishment of zootechnical and genealogical regulations for intra-Community trade in equidae as well as animal health regulations for the movement of equidae and for their importation from third countries. According to this regulation, the identification is carried out parenterally by implanting a transponder between the neck and withers in the center of the neck in the area of ​​the neck band . In addition, an individual equine passport is created to identify the animals and the owners.

Other provisions

In addition to the topics addressed, other less detailed aspects are dealt with. Section 9 regulates the prohibition of castrating non-veterinary cattle castrating animals that suffer from a notifiable animal disease or that are suspected of having such an animal disease. The obligation to notify the management of herds of migrating sheep within districts and across district boundaries is considered in Section 10. In principle, this requires approval from the responsible authorities and proof of an official veterinary certificate that the herd is free of any external symptoms that suggest an animal disease.

history

The currently valid cattle traffic regulation on the basis of the mentioned EU directives was published in the German Federal Law Gazette on July 6, 2007 and came into force on July 14, 2007. In the following years there were two small changes:

  • On May 1, 2008, Article 3 of the Regulation amending the EU Bluetongue Control Implementation Regulation , the Avian Influenza Regulation and the Cattle Traffic Regulation of April 25, 2008 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 764 ) came into force, after which a date was changed.
  • On June 23, 2009, on the basis of Article 2 of the Ordinance amending the Tuberculosis Ordinance and other animal health ordinances of June 17, 2009 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1337 ), minor additions were made to the appendix, such as the inclusion of Wagyu cattle in the list of cattle breeds and the entry of the expected duration of the journey in the transport control book.

On March 9, 2010, a new version of the ordinance was decided upon as part of the first ordinance amending the cattle traffic ordinance of March 3, 2010 on the basis of the Animal Diseases Act ( Federal Law Gazette 2010 I p. 198 ). The significantly revised regulation was published on March 3, 2010 and came into force on March 9, 2010.

Small changes to the wording of the new version were made in December 2011 by the ordinance for the adjustment of ordinances according to the BMELV Treaty of Lisbon Amendment Act of December 13, 2011 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2720 ) and by the law for the amendment of provisions on promulgation and Announcements as well as the civil procedure code, the law concerning the introduction of the civil procedure code and the tax code of December 22, 2011 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 3044 ). The last change came into force on the basis of Art. 28 of the Fourth Ordinance on the Amendment of Animal Health Ordinances of April 17, 2014 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 388 ), in which the first adjustments to the newly enacted Animal Health Act were made. Since the Animal Disease Act was replaced on May 1, 2014 by a fundamental revision entitled Animal Health Act (TierGesG), further changes are to be expected.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ordinance on the protection against the spread of animal diseases in cattle traffic (Viehverkehrsverordnung - ViehVerkV).
  2. ↑ Directive 90/426 / EEC of the Council of June 26, 1990 laying down the animal health provisions for the movement of equidae and for their import from third countries. ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pferdezuchtverband-mv.de
  3. ↑ Directive 90/427 / EEC (PDF) of the Council of June 26, 1990 laying down the zootechnical and genealogical regulations for intra-Community trade in equidae
  4. ↑ Directive 92/102 / EEC (PDF) of the Council of November 27, 1992 on the identification and registration of animals
  5. ↑ Directive 2000/15 / EC (PDF) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 April 2000 amending Council Directive 64/432 / EEC on the regulation of animal health issues in intra-community trade in cattle and pigs
  6. ↑ a b § 1 ViehVerkV
  7. ↑ a b c § 2 ViehVerkV
  8. ↑ a b c § 3 ViehVerkV
  9. ↑ § 4 ViehVerkV
  10. ↑ § 8 ViehVerkV
  11. ↑ a b § 5 ViehVerkV
  12. ↑ § 6 ViehVerkV
  13. ↑ § 7 ViehVerkV
  14. ↑ § 11 ViehVerkV
  15. ↑ §§ 12 to 14 ViehVerkV
  16. ↑ § 15 ViehVerkV
  17. ↑ § 16 ViehVerkV
  18. ↑ Sections 17 and 18 ViehVerkV
  19. ↑ § 19 ViehVerkV
  20. ↑ Sections 20 to 25 ViehVerkV
  21. ↑ a b § 26 ViehVerkV
  22. ↑ § 45 ViehverkehrsV
  23. ↑ a b § 27 ViehVerkV
  24. ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 17, 2000 on the introduction of a system for the identification and registration of cattle and on the labeling of beef and beef products and the repeal of Regulation (EC) No. 820 / 97 of the Council. (PDF, OJ L 204 of 11 August 2000, p. 1).
  25. ↑ Appendix 4 (to § 27 Paragraph 3 and 4) ViehVerkV - ear tags for cattle identification
  26. ↑ § 32 ViehverkV
  27. ↑ Sections 28 and 29 ViehVerkV
  28. ↑ a b § 31 ViehVerkV
  29. ↑ § 30 ViehVerkV
  30. ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 21/2004 (PDF) of the Council of December 17, 2003 introducing a system for the identification and registration of sheep and goats and amending Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 and Directives 92 / 102 / EEC and 64/432 / EEC (OJ EU 2004 No. L 5 p. 8)
  31. ↑ a b § 31 ViehVerkV
  32. ↑ Appendix 4 (to Section 34 Paragraphs 3 and 4) ViehVerkV - ear tags for identifying sheep and goats
  33. ↑ Sections 35 to 37 ViehVerkV
  34. ↑ Sections 39 to 43 ViehVerkV
  35. ↑ a b Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 (PDF) of the Commission of 6 June 2008 for the implementation of Council Directives 90/426 / EEC and 90/427 / EEC with regard to methods for identifying equidae (OJ. L 149 of 7 June 2008, p. 3), Article 11
  36. ↑ Regulation (EEC) No. 427/90 (PDF) of the Council of June 26, 1990 laying down the zootechnical and genealogical regulations for intra-Community trade in equidae
  37. ↑ Directive 90/426 / EEC (PDF) of the Council of June 26, 1990 laying down the animal health provisions for the movement of equidae and for their import from third countries
  38. ↑ § 44 ViehVerkV
  39. ↑ § 9 ViehVerkV
  40. ↑ § 10 ViehVerkV
  41. ↑ Cattle Traffic Ordinance of March 3, 2010. (PDF) Federal Law Gazette 2010 Part I No. 9, issued in Bonn on March 8, 2010.
  42. ↑ Animal Health Act (TierGesG) of May 22, 2013 ( BGBl. I p. 1324 ); Validity over. from May 1, 2014.

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