Apply for recognition as a farrier or farrier's assistant

• You submit the application including the required evidence to the responsible body
• They will check whether all requirements for state recognition have been met
• If the examination is positive, you will be granted state recognition as a farrier

Please contact the Supervisory and Service Directorate (ADD) - Department 4 in Trier.

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

State recognition as a farrier is granted if

• completed vocational training
• two years of full-time practical work, subject to social insurance contributions, with a farrier who has been operating a farriery business for at least three years following state recognition as a farrier
• attendance of the required training courses and successful completion of an examination and
• the reliability required to exercise the profession
  must be proven.

For training completed in Germany:

• Identity document
• Proof of completed vocational training
• Proof of two years of full-time employment subject to social security contributions (e.g. employment contract with at least 20 hours/week)
• Proof of successfully passing the examination after attending the required training courses
• Proof of the reliability required to exercise the profession (extended certificate of good conduct)

For persons with examination certificates obtained outside Germany:

• Identity document
• equivalent examination certificate,
• proof of the reliability required to exercise the profession (application for a certificate of good conduct or submission of a confirmation from the country in which the examination certificate was obtained, which shows that no violations of animal welfare have been committed)

Is based on the respective administrative fee schedule of the federal state or on the fee statutes of the authorities responsible under federal state law.

Recognition as a farrier: 300.00 to 500.00 EUR

You do not have to meet any deadlines for the application.

Once the application for recognition has been submitted, the competent body will decide on this in a timely manner.

• § Section 3 of the German Hoof Trimming Act (HufBeschlG)
• § Section 4 of the German Hoof Trimming Act (HufBeschlG)
• § 1 Farriery Ordinance (HufBeschlV)
• § Section 3 of the Hoof Shoeing Recognition Ordinance (HufBeschl-AnerkennV)
• Link to § 3 para. 1 and § 4 of the German Hoof Trimming Act (HufBeschG)

Appeal (appeal may be excluded depending on state law), administrative court action

Forms available: No

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: No

Personal appearance necessary: No

Anyone who intentionally or negligently carries out farriery and hoof trimming as a farrier or specialist training at farriery schools as a farriery instructor without the required state recognition is acting in breach of the regulations (Section 9 HufBeschlG).

20.12.2024