Dog Movement and Import Restriction Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law on Restricting the Movement or Importation of Dangerous Dogs inland |
| Short title: | Dog Movement and Import Restriction Act |
| Abbreviation: | HundVerbrEinfG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Commercial administrative law |
| References : | 7824-6 |
| Issued on: | April 12, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 530 ) |
| Effective on: | April 21, 2001 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 4 G of April 12, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 530, 532 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
January 1, 2002 (Art. 5 Sentence 2 G of April 12, 2001) |
| GESTA : | B056 |
| Weblink: | Text of the law |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The law on the restriction of the bringing or import of dangerous dogs into Germany , in short Dog Movement and Import Restriction Act - HundVerbrEinfG , is a German legal regulation. It was enacted on April 12, 2001 as Article 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act and came into force on April 21, 2001.
According to the Interior Committee, the federal government reacted in the recommendation for a resolution on the federal government's draft law to increased attacks by dangerous dogs on people who had also killed people. After a six-year-old child playing in a schoolyard in Hamburg was bitten and killed by two mongrels of the races Bull Terrier, Pitbull and American Staffordshire Terrier on June 26, 2000 , the dog laws at state level were partly tightened and partly supplemented by new regulations.
The law regulates the bringing and import of dangerous dogs into the country. The legislator understands bringing the goods from another EU member state, and importing the goods from a third country.
The law particularly affects dogs of the breeds
as well as their crossings with each other or with other dogs.
Bringing animals of these breeds to Germany from abroad is prohibited. It is also prohibited to bring dogs of dangerous breeds, which are determined by the respective national law, from abroad to the respective country. Dangerous dogs may be brought into the country or imported for the purpose of permanent keeping if the accompanying person can prove that the dogs are authorized to be kept in a country. Anyone who violates the law is punished with a prison sentence of up to two years or a fine. Acts of negligence are punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to one year.
In March 2004 the Federal Constitutional Court confirmed the law as compatible with the Basic Law , but also emphasized the need for the federal legislature to “check and evaluate the biting behavior of the dogs covered by Section 2 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 HundVerbrEinfG more than before. If the prognostic assessment of the dangerousness of these dogs by the legislature is not or not fully confirmed, he will have to adapt his regulation to the new findings. "The breeding ban anchored in the (original) law on combating dangerous dogs was declared null and void by the Federal Constitutional Court . It also declared the illegal handling of dangerous dogs introduced by the law to be incompatible with the Basic Law and null and void.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Resolution recommendation and report of the Interior Committee (4th committee) on the draft law of the federal government - printed matter 14/4451 - (PDF; 86 kB)
- ↑ a b c d Federal Constitutional Court, decision of March 16, 2004, 1 BvR 1778/01
- ↑ Law on the restriction of the bringing or import of dangerous dogs into Germany (Hundeverbringungs- und -einfuhrbeschränkungsgesetz - HundVerbrEinfG) (PDF; 37 kB) of April 12, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 530 )
- ↑ Ordinance on exceptions to the ban on bringing dangerous dogs into the country (Hundeverbringungs- und -einfuhrverordnung - HundVerbrEinfVO) of April 3, 2002 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1248 ), Section 2 Paragraph 4
- ↑ BvR 1778/01 marginal number 88
- ↑ Law to combat dangerous dogs in: BGBl. 2001 I p. 530
