Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg

Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg - MLR BW -
State level	Baden-Württemberg
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1952
Headquarters	Kernerplatz 10 Stuttgart
Authority management	Peter Hauk
Web presence	Homepage of the MLR Stuttgart

Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection in Stuttgart, Kernerplatz

The Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg (MLR) is one of eleven ministries in the administration of the state of Baden-Württemberg . From 1952 to 1953 it was called "Ministry of Agriculture and Food", then "Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests", from 1966 "Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests", from 1972 "Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Environment" , from 1980 "Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Environment and Forests", from 1987 "Ministry of Rural Areas", from 2001 "Ministry of Food and Rural Areas" and from 2010 "Ministry of Rural Areas, Nutrition and Consumer Protection". It has had its current name since 2011.

The agriculture ministers since 1945 can be found in the list of agriculture ministers of Baden-Württemberg .

Business areas

The ministry is responsible for all questions relating to rural areas, agriculture, land consolidation, surveying and geographic information, nutrition, food monitoring, veterinary services and the forest. There are the following business areas:

1. Consumer protection (except human medical assessments), nutritional issues and consumer information on nutritional issues;
2. Safety of Food of Plant and Animal Origin, Food Control , Chemical and Veterinary Inspection Offices;
3. Veterinary and animal welfare , State Veterinary Investigation Office Aulendorf - Diagnostic Center;
4. Design and maintenance of the cultural and recreational landscape as the highest agricultural and forestry authority, biotope maintenance and biotope networking in the forest as well as outside of nature conservation and landscape protection areas , extensification and greening of agricultural and forestry areas;
5. Nature conservation and landscape conservation (including compensation payments) and biotope and species protection as the highest nature conservation authority, district offices for nature conservation and landscape management, nature conservation fund;
6. Land maintenance , land culture, landscape development and planning, agroecology, landscape-related recreation;
7. Coordination of planning for rural areas, structural measures for rural areas;
8. Agriculture including viticulture and horticulture ; renewable raw materials including energetic use of biomass; Hunting and fishing , rural housekeeping;
9. Land consolidation and land development ;
10. Surveying and geographic information ;
11. Advice, support, professional training and further education, technical schools, research and testing in the agricultural and forestry sector;
12. Compensation for agriculture and forestry;
13. Plant protection and forest protection, production-related soil protection, fertilization;
14. Forestry , forest planning, forest ownership structure;
15. Administration of state forest assets, technical supervision of state domains and agricultural free float, agricultural and forestry real estate transactions;
16. Agricultural market, technical support for the food industry, securing the supply of food, marketing, promotion of the treatment and processing of agricultural products; Quality checks.

The authority is based in Stuttgart .

Subordinate agencies

The following departments, authorities and institutions, among others, are subordinate to or assigned to the Ministry or are directly or indirectly supervised by it:

• State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development (LGL) with the locations Stuttgart , Kornwestheim and Karlsruhe - created on January 1, 2009 through the merger of the State Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg and the State Office for Land Reorganization and Rural Development Baden-Württemberg
• Forestry experimental and research institute based in Freiburg im Breisgau
• Main and state stud Marbach based in Gomadingen
• State Institute for Agriculture, Food and Rural Areas based in Schwäbisch Gmünd
• Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg based in Karlsruhe (originated from the State Institute for Plant Production based in Rheinstetten , the State Institute for Plant Protection based in Stuttgart , the State Agricultural Examination and Research Institute Augustenberg based in Karlsruhe; the State Institute has branch offices at the previous offices)
• State institute for pig breeding based in Boxberg
• Academy for Agriculture and Housekeeping based in Kupferzell
• State teaching and research institute for horticulture based in Heidelberg
• Agricultural center for cattle husbandry, grassland management, dairy farming, game and fishing in Baden-Württemberg, based in Aulendorf (originated from the state teaching and research institute for animal husbandry and grassland management based in Aulendorf and the state dairy teaching and research institute based in Wangen im Allgäu )
• State teaching and research institute for viticulture and fruit growing based in Weinsberg
• State viticulture institute based in Freiburg im Breisgau
• Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Offices (CVUA) Stuttgart ( Fellbach headquarters ), Sigmaringen , Freiburg im Breisgau and Karlsruhe
• State Veterinary Investigation Office (STUA) Aulendorf / Diagnostic Center

See also

• State government of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the ministry ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 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. , accessed May 17, 2011 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 23, 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.