Erzeugergemeinschaft Anerkennung als Vereinigung

Agricultural organisations may be recognised on application.

An agricultural organisation shall be recognised at its request if:

1. the general requirements for recognition laid down in Paragraph 3 and

2. fulfils the special conditions for recognition which apply to the applicant agricultural organisation under Union law, the Agricultural Market Structure Act and this Regulation for certain agricultural organisations or certain product sectors.

Separate recognition is required for each product sector in which an agricultural organisation operates.

• informal application
• the applicable statutes of the agricultural organisation as well as the contracts concluded within the framework of § 10a of the Agricultural Market Structure Ordinance,
• a list of first names and surnames, in the case of legal persons, the names of all members of the agricultural organisation existing at the time of the application, including their respective addresses,
• proof for each member referred to in point 2 that it fulfils the membership requirements of agricultural organisation law; and
• attach proof of compliance with the requirement of § 3 no. 1. If, by way of derogation from sentence 2 no. 4, an association of persons who cannot be registered in an official register submits an application for recognition, this must attach a certified copy of the contract establishing it. At the request of the competent authority, the agricultural organisation shall provide further information and provide evidence insofar as the documents submitted on the basis of sentences 2 and 3 are not sufficient for the examination of the recognition requirements and insofar as this is necessary for the examination of recognition.

An agricultural organisation must:

1. be a legal person governed by private or public law or an association of persons governed by private law;

2. can trace its creation back to an initiative of its members,

3. have their head office in a country in which they

(a) has members; and

(b) carries out an activity which is not merely negligible in comparison with its overall activity, provided that it is not an interbranch organisation

4. have written articles of association which:

-Name

- Headquarters, and

- the fulfilment of the conditions for recognition can be inferred,

(b) the rules contain:

- to exercise democratic control by the members over the agricultural organisation as a whole and the decisions of the agricultural organisation,

- membership fees,

- for the proper performance of tasks,

- for the admission of new members and the termination of membership,

on penalties for breaches of membership obligations

- to set up branches.

No. 12.1 "Examination of an application for recognition of a producer organisation or its association as well as of interbranch associations according to AgrarMSG" of the Ordinance on the Collection of Administrative Fees in the Areas of Agriculture, Forestry and Hunting (GebOLandw) of 11 July 2014 (GVBl. II No. 47 p. 1), last amended on 17 September 2019 (GVBl. II No. 76 p. 1).

Application review

Preparation of decisions

A decision on the application shall be taken within four months of receipt of the information and documents required for the examination of recognition. In the absence of required particulars or documents, the Authority shall inform the applicant accordingly.

Agricultural organisations are recognised on request.

Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection (MLUK) of the State of Brandenburg, Department 3

Henning-von-Tresckow-Straße 2-13, House S

14467 Potsdam, Germany

https://mluk.brandenburg.de/mluk/de/

VL-MLUK-Abteilung3@MLUK.Brandenburg.de , +49 331 866 7601 (secretary)

P.O. Box 60 11 50

14411 Potsdam, Germany

Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection (MLUK) of the State of Brandenburg, Department 3