Applying for a permit for national insemination centres and national embryo collection teams

You must apply in writing to the animal breeding authority responsible for the location of the facility for permission to operate:

• Submit an informal application for the relevant operating permit with the required information.
• Send the informal application and all required documents to the competent authority.
• The recognition requirements will be checked during an on-site inspection.
• The competent authority then decides on the permit and sends the corresponding notification to the applicant. The permit may be issued subject to conditions.

Please contact the Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum Westpfalz.

Alternatively, you can contact the Single Point of Contact in Rhineland-Palatinate.The Single Point of Contact is a public body through which you can handle all administrative procedures and formalities required for the commencement and exercise of your service activity and for the recognition of a foreign professional qualification. Further information can be found on the website of the Point of Single Contact.

• Website - Single point of contact Rhineland-Palatinate

List of authorities responsible for animal breeding

• Your facility is located in Germany.
• You can ensure that the animal health requirements necessary to keep livestock healthy are met.
• You can ensure that a veterinarian is responsible for the veterinary and technical management of the facility or that the veterinary technical requirements are carried out by a contractually bound veterinarian.
• Your company employs sufficient staff to meet the requirements for operating a national semen collection center.
• You store and label semen accordingly to avoid confusion.
• You keep records of the collection, treatment, storage, delivery and destruction of semen, ova and embryos.
• Your business has the premises and equipment listed in the Animal Breeding Implementation Ordinance.
• For the authorization of an insemination station: You keep at least two donor animals.

Permission is granted if:

• a veterinarian is in charge of the insemination station in terms of veterinary technology or the performance of the veterinary technical tasks is guaranteed by a veterinarian who is contractually bound to the insemination station,
• the personnel necessary for proper operation are available,
• the facilities necessary for the collection, treatment, storage and delivery of semen are in place, and
• the male breeding animals are present

The informal application must contain the following

• the name, address and legal form of the operator
• the addresses of all parts of the establishment and an indication of their function for the collection, treatment, storage and delivery of semen or oocytes and embryos
• an indication of the material area of activity

Official approval must be obtained before the start of operations. Permission to operate an insemination station is generally granted for 10 years. However, it can be renewed at a later date.

• § 18 Tierzuchtgesetz (TierZG)
• § 10 Tierzuchtdurchführungsverordnung (TierZDV)
• § 11 Tierzuchtdurchführungsverordnung (TierZDV)
• § 17 Tierzuchtdurchführungsverordnung (TierZDV)
• § 18 Tierzuchtdurchführungsverordnung (TierZDV)

• Objection within one month
• Legal action if the objection is not upheld

A written application is required.

23.08.2024

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