Veterinary Office (Germany)
Veterinary Office or Office for Veterinary Affairs is the name in Germany for the organizational unit at the level of the districts and cities that is responsible for the veterinary system and usually also for the ante-mortem and meat inspection , food monitoring and animal welfare . The communal community center for administrative management recommends using the number 39 in its administrative structure plan for the veterinary and food control office. In some federal states, the veterinary office is also responsible for monitoring veterinary house pharmacies .
The staffing includes official veterinarians at the management level , as well as food inspectors and official specialist assistants as specialists. In addition, there is at least one graduate in administrative management (FH) or Master of Public Administration , rarely also lawyers , if the veterinary office has been entrusted with the implementation of the technical administrative procedures as well as the punishment of administrative offenses and the filing of criminal charges .
While in the 1990s some federal states still organized the veterinary offices as state authorities, since then these have almost without exception been transferred to local government .
literature
- Willfried Brühann: The public veterinary system, Parey 1983
Individual evidence
- ↑ Administrative structure plan according to the KGSt for East German municipalities, page 5 of the PDF file (1 MB).