Notifiable animal diseases (Germany)

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Notifiable animal diseases are infectious diseases of domestic animals and freshwater fish for which there is an obligation to notify under the Ordinance on Notifiable Animal Diseases . The obligation to notify is intended to ensure that the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, as the competent federal authority, has a constant overview of the current spread of these diseases. The reporting obligation serves primarily statistical purposes; in contrast to the notifiable animal diseases , no official control measures are initiated in response to the report.

Objectives of the reporting requirement

The notifiable animal diseases are diseases that can gain practical importance and at the same time can be diagnosed easily and reliably. The obligation to notify is intended to ensure that the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), as the competent higher federal authority, has reliable knowledge of the type, extent and development of these diseases at all times. In contrast to the notifiable animal diseases , the notifiable animal diseases are not combated by state measures, but for the maintenance of an efficient and healthy animal population it is essential that there is a constant current overview of the distribution situation so that suitable control measures can be initiated at an early stage if the disease situation occurs makes this necessary.

The competent authorities also need the current overview of the status of these diseases in order to comply with international obligations to submit regular reports on the spread of the respective diseases to the International Office of Epizootics, the World Health Organization (WHO) , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO ) as well as to the European Community .

The heads of the veterinary examination offices, the animal health authorities and other examination centers are obliged to report the occurrence of a notifiable illness to the respective authorities responsible under state law (state ministries, state offices). In addition, veterinarians who diagnose a reportable disease in the course of their profession are also obliged to report to the responsible food control and veterinary offices. In addition to the type of illness, the date of detection, the affected animal species, the number of affected animal populations and the name of the affected district or urban district must also be reported when reporting ( Section 1 of the Ordinance on Reportable Animal Diseases).

The authorities responsible under Land law, in turn, forward the reports entered to them to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture no later than the first working day of the week following receipt of the report, on which the reports from the entire federal territory converge ( Section 2 of the Ordinance on Reporters Animal diseases). For the electronic reporting procedure to the Federal Ministry, the special software animal disease messages is used, which the Federal Ministry makes available to the state authorities via the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals .

The reports received by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture serve as the database for reports from the Federal Republic of Germany to the member states of the EU.

Legal bases

The Animal Health Act, which came into force on May 1, 2014 ( Act to prevent and combat animal diseases , TierGesG), empowers the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture to designate notifiable animal diseases by means of ordinances in order to obtain a comprehensive overview of their spread. The ordinances issued require the approval of the Federal Council ( Section 26 (3) of the Animal Health Act ).

The notifiable animal diseases are named in the Ordinance on Notifiable Animal Diseases (TKrMeldpflV).

The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut with its headquarters on the island of Riems is named as the national reference laboratory for the diagnosis of notifiable and reportable animal diseases . As part of these tasks, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute publishes a collection of official methods that prescribe the manner in which samples are taken and the examination of the sample material ( Section 27 (5) of the Animal Health Act).

List of notifiable animal diseases

The following animal diseases are subject to notification (as of April 2020). The numbering is based on the numbering in the applicable ordinance on notifiable animal diseases . This is not consistent, as changes in the ordinance in the past meant that the obligation to notify individual illnesses was no longer applicable or that it was extended to other illnesses, which were then sorted into the list in alphabetical order.

No. Animal disease Animal species Pathogen Remarks
2. Contagious uterine inflammation of the horse (CEM) Horses Taylorella equigenitalis
3. Bornavirus infections in mammals lots Bornash disease virus
4th Campylobacteriosis lots Campylobacter ssp.
5. Chlamydiosis lots Chlamydophila species
6th Echinococcosis lots Echinococcus ssp.
8th. Equine virus arteritis infection Horses Equine arteritis virus
11. Gumboro disease Chickens, turkeys Infectious bursal disease virus
12. Infectious Laryngotracheitis of Poultry (ILT) Chicken Chicken herpes virus 1
14th Leptospirosis lots Leptospira ssp.
15th Listeriosis lots Listeria monocytogenes
16. Maedi-Visna Sheep, goats Maedi Visna virus
17th Marek's disease Chicken Chicken herpes virus 2
17a. Low pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds Wild birds Avian influenza virus
18th Paratuberculosis ruminant Mycopacterium paratuberculosis
19th Q fever ruminant Coxiella burnetii
20th Intoxicating fire Sheep, goats ...
21st Mammalian pox lots Orthopoxvirus ssp.
22nd salmonellosis lots Salmonella ssp. except for salmonella infections that require notification in accordance with Section 4 of the Chicken Salmonella Ordinance, as well as cattle salmonellosis (obligation to notify under Section 1 No. 28 of the Ordinance on Notifiable Animal Diseases)
23. Schmallenberg virus Bovine Schmallenberg virus
24. Toxoplasmosis lots Toxoplasma gondii especially all food-producing mammal species
25th Transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) Pigs Pig coronavirus 1
26th tuberculosis lots Mycobacterium ssp. except for Mycobacterium bovis including subspecies infections (obligation to notify according to Section 1 No. 36 of the Ordinance on Notifiable Animal Diseases)
27. Tularemia Rabbits, hares Francisella tularensis
28. Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli lots Escherichia coli ssp.
30th Birdpox Birds Avipoxvirus ssp

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Animal diseases requiring notification on the homepage of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, accessed on June 7, 2016
  2. Legal basis on the homepage of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, accessed on June 7, 2016
  3. General administrative regulation on animal disease news of November 24, 1994
  4. Council Directive on the notification of animal diseases in the Community of December 21, 1982, last amended by the Commission's implementing decision of November 27, 2012
  5. a b Ordinance on notifiable animal diseases
  6. ^ Announcement of the national reference laboratories of December 5, 2008, last amended on April 28, 2009, Federal Gazette p. 1745