Fertilizer Act
Basic data | |
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Title: | Fertilizer Act |
Abbreviation: | FertilizerG, DüG |
Type: | Federal law |
Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
Legal matter: | Special administrative law , agricultural law |
References : | 7820-15 |
Issued on: | 9 January 2009 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 54 , ber.p. 136 ) |
Entry into force on: | February 6, 2009 |
Last change by: |
Art. 277 VO from 19 June 2020 ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1328, 1360 ) |
Effective date of the last change: |
June 27, 2020 (Art. 361 of June 19, 2020) |
Please note the note on the applicable legal version. |
The German Fertilizer Act emerged from the reform of the Fertilizer Act in 1977 and comprises 18 paragraphs . The Fertilizer Act, which has been in force since February 6, 2009, no longer only regulates the placing of fertilizers on the market , but also the fertilization itself. For this reason, the name of the law has been changed.
Aim and purpose
A decisive innovation is the formulation of soil fertility as an essential goal of fertilization. In the Fertilizer Act , fertilization was defined as plant nutrition .
structure
The fertilizer law is therefore structured:
Section 1 Purpose
Section 2 Definition of terms
Section 3 Application
Section 4 Participation activities
Section 5 Placing on the market
Section 6 EC fertilizers
Section 7 Labeling, packaging
Section 8 Tolerances
Section 9 Sampling procedures, analysis methods
Section 10 Scientific advisory board
Section 11 Sewage sludge compensation fund
Section 12 Monitoring
Section 13 Official order
Section 14 Administrative fines
Article 15 Statutory ordinances in certain cases
Article 16 Authorization to repeal regulations
Article 17 Transitional regulation
Article 18 Entry into force, expiry