Conservation of plants, animals and nature

Sewage

Find out here about wastewater disposal and the costs

Animal testing Approval

You can apply to the State Office for Occupational Safety, Consumer Protection and Health (LAVG) for approval to carry out an animal experiment. In certain cases, it is sufficient to notify the LAVG of the experimental project.

Discharge of waste water into public sewage treatment plants Permit

Information on connecting your home to the public sewage network

Show employment of animal welfare officers

You can report animal welfare officers at your facility or company to the State Office for Occupational Safety, Consumer Protection and Health (LAVG).

Appointment of a responsible person authorized to issue instructions to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act Obligation

Do you or your employees slaughter, stun or bleed animals commercially? If so, you must appoint a responsible person with authority to issue instructions for reasons of animal welfare.

Apply for entry in the EMAS register

You can have your organisation registered in the EMAS register at the conclusion of EMAS certification.

Breeding, keeping and trading animals, applying for a permit

You require a permit from the competent authority for certain activities involving the commercial handling of animals.

Apply for a zoo permit

If you want to run a zoo, you need permission from the nature conservation authority. In addition to the construction and operation of a zoo, the expansion and significant changes also require approval.

Apply to operate a zoo

If you want to run a zoo, you need permission from the nature conservation authority.

Clear cutting in the protection forest

Would you like to carry out clear-cutting in your protection forest? Then you must apply to the lower forestry authority for permission to clear-cut.

Contaminated site and soil protection register Information

You would like to know whether there is a suspicion of contaminated sites or harmful soil changes on a property? If so, you can request information from the register of contaminated sites from the relevant authority.

Send annual eel stocking report

If you stock eels, you must keep written records of the stocking process. You summarize these in an annual report for the calendar year and send it to the upper fisheries authority.

Send annual eel catch report

If you fish for eel professionally, you must keep written records for eel fishing. You summarize these in an annual report for the calendar year and submit it to the upper fisheries authority.

Discharge of wastewater into private wastewater systems Authorization

If you wish to discharge commercial/industrial wastewater into a private wastewater system or sewer system, you generally require a permit.

Waiver of authorization, permit or elevated permit to use a body of water, revocation by the authority Revocation

You want to give up your existing permit wastewater into a surface water and / or via infiltration into groundwater? Then an application for revocation must be submitted to the competent authority for this purpose.

Notification of the construction, significant modification or decommissioning of a slurry, liquid manure and silage leachate plant Acceptance

You must notify us at least 6 weeks in advance of the construction, decommissioning or significant modification of a slurry, liquid manure and silage leachate plant (JGS plant).

Prohibition of removing or damaging protected trees Exemption permit

If you want to fell a protected tree, cut it back severely or interfere with the root system, apply to your municipality for an exemption from the tree protection statutes.

Applying for a permit for the import and export of protected plant and animal species

If you want to import or export specimens of protected animal and plant species into or from the EU, you will need a permit.

Recycling and waste management

Here you will find information regarding the requirements and conditions for the handling of waste generated through professional and commercial activities.

Health and safety obligations by activity

Here you will find information on occupational health and safety and the applicable laws, regulations and obligations of employers.

Environmental and nature conservation associations for domestic associations that are active beyond one federal state and for foreign associations Recognition