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If you are a food business/enterprise, carrying out activities related to the production, processing and distribution of food (including internet trade), you must register with your local food control authority.

Food establishments are required by European Union law to register and report significant changes in work technology procedures or alterations. This applies to any facility you manage or operate. It does not matter if it is processing, producing or distributing food. Food businesses are any business that produces, processes, markets directly or over the internet, transports, etc. food and whether or not it is for profit.

Registration takes place at the authorities responsible for food monitoring at the district offices, the counties or independent cities or the districts.

Food businesses are, for example:

• Pharmacies/drugstores that carry food or food supplements in their assortment.
• Food vending machine operators
• Bakeries
• Cafés
• Ice cream parlors
• Producers of food of animal origin
• Fishing, crustacean, shellfish and mollusk businesses
• Restaurants
• Wholesalers, transporters, importers and exporters of food products
• Snack bars
• Kiosks
• Confectioneries
• Kitchens and canteens (also all facilities for communal catering)
• farms for raising or keeping food-producing animals
• Food brokers (for example, via the Internet)
• Milk bars
• milk processing plants and dairies
• mini-markets
• mobile food trade including sales vehicles
• primary producers of plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, herbs
• food banks
• gas stations with food sales
• transporters of food
• Events with catering
• Party service and catering

According to EU law, every food business operator must register its business or all business premises under its control with the locally competent food control authority. Food business operators at all stages of production, processing and trade are subject to this obligation. In addition to agricultural operations (primary production), this also includes restaurants, communal kitchens, snack bars, etc. Businesses that only marginally carry food in their product range, such as gas stations, pharmacies, drugstores and fitness studios, are also subject to registration.
The term primary production covers the production, rearing and cultivation of plants and animals intended for use as food or feed. This also includes, among other things, harvesting as well as milking and keeping farm animals before slaughter.
Food businesses are all businesses, regardless of whether they are profit-oriented or not and whether they are public or private. Thus, businesses that distribute food free of charge (e.g., food banks) or that engage in pure brokerage activities are also subject to registration.
In addition, food business operators are obliged to notify the competent authority of all important changes, such as changes of address, the designation or address of business premises, activities, type of business, product range, as well as business closures.

• If applicable, form or informal
• details of the name, address and legal form of the food establishment
• for each establishment must be indicated separately: the legal form, the name and the address of the establishment belonging to the enterprise
• for each establishment, the following must also be indicated separately: the activity and the type of establishment

You have a business that produces, processes or distributes food. These include:

• Restaurants,
• artisanal and industrial producers
• farms and winegrowers
• businesses that sell food only marginally, such as gas stations, pharmacies, drugstores and gyms
• businesses that distribute food free of charge, such as food banks
• Businesses that carry out purely brokerage activities
• Schools, kindergartens, old people's homes, club houses that regularly sell food (canteens, cafeterias).
• Entrepreneurs who offer food on the Internet. It does not matter whether they offer the food
  • on their own homepage,
  • via other suppliers or
  • on marketplaces such as eBay or Amazon.

Your business is not yet registered with the competent authority or there have been changes in the work-technological process or conversions to the information or data already recorded or you would like to deregister your food business.

• Use the form that may be available and send it to the competent food control authority.
• In all cases, the required food establishment information must be received by the food control authority for registration prior to the start of operations; if in doubt, send the required information in writing to the appropriate food control authority
• The competent food supervisory authority shall record the establishment data.
• If there are any changes, in particular in the work-technological process, or conversions, to the information or data already recorded, or if you wish to deregister your food establishment, please also contact the competent food control authority.

Registration should always be made in writing. If necessary, use the available forms and send them to the competent food control authority. Information about the document to be filled in or the information to be provided can be obtained from the competent food supervisory authority.

• The data and information on registration must be reported before the start of the activity.
• Significant changes in the work-technological process or conversions must be reported immediately.

Food establishments processing or handling food of animal origin (such as meat, live bivalve molluscs, fishery products, raw milk as well as dairy products) are required to be approved in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin before commencing operations.

• Registration of food establishments Registration
• According to EU law, food establishments are obliged to register with the municipal food monitoring authorities and to notify them of any significant changes in the work technology process or conversions
• Registration takes place with the authorities responsible for food monitoring at the district offices, the counties or independent cities or the districts.

Food control authority of the district or independent city or the respective district office or state office

• Food control authority of the district or independent city or the respective district office.
• Note: In Saarland, the state office is responsible.

Veterinary and food monitoring offices of the counties and independent cities of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

• Forms: yes
• Written form required: yes
• On-site personal appearance for application: no
• Online service: no