Application for authorisation according to § 11 Animal Welfare Act
<p>In order to protect animals from abuse and harm, only competent and reliable persons may use animals for their purposes. To ensure this as far as possible, a licence must be obtained from the municipal veterinary office in the following cases:</p>
<p><strong>Activity requiring a licence</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li>Keeping and breeding vertebrates or cephalopods for experimental purposes</li>
 <li>Keeping and breeding vertebrates for the purposes specified in Section 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 2 No. 4</li>
 <li>Keeping animals in an animal shelter or similar facility</li>
 <li>Keeping animals in a zoological garden or other facility where animals are kept and exhibited</li>
 <li>Training dogs for protection purposes for third parties or maintaining facilities for this purpose</li>
 <li>Giving away or brokering such animals in return for payment or other consideration</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Activity requiring a licence in the case of commercial activity</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li>Breeding or keeping vertebrate animals, with the exception of farm animals and game kept in enclosures</li>
 <li>Trade in vertebrate animals</li>
 <li>Maintaining a riding or driving business</li>
 <li>Exhibiting animals or making animals available for such purposes (for circuses and travelling animal shows: see below)</li>
 <li>Fighting vertebrates as pests</li>
 <li>Training dogs for third parties or instructing the training of dogs by the animal owner</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Especially for circuses and other commercial travelling animal shows</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li>for the commercial exhibition of animals</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Especially for animal fairs</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li>for the purpose of exchanging or selling animals by third parties</li>
</ul>
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# Application for authorisation according to § 11 Animal Welfare Act

## Summary

In certain cases, you need a licence under the Animal Welfare Act to keep, breed, train or trade animals.
## Description

In order to protect animals from abuse and harm, only competent and reliable persons may use animals for their purposes. To ensure this as far as possible, a licence must be obtained from the municipal veterinary office in the following cases:

**Activity requiring a licence**

* Keeping and breeding vertebrates or cephalopods for experimental purposes
* Keeping and breeding vertebrates for the purposes specified in Section 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 2 No. 4
* Keeping animals in an animal shelter or similar facility
* Keeping animals in a zoological garden or other facility where animals are kept and exhibited
* Training dogs for protection purposes for third parties or maintaining facilities for this purpose
* Giving away or brokering such animals in return for payment or other consideration

**Activity requiring a licence in the case of commercial activity**

* Breeding or keeping vertebrate animals, with the exception of farm animals and game kept in enclosures
* Trade in vertebrate animals
* Maintaining a riding or driving business
* Exhibiting animals or making animals available for such purposes (for circuses and travelling animal shows: see below)
* Fighting vertebrates as pests
* Training dogs for third parties or instructing the training of dogs by the animal owner

**Especially for circuses and other commercial travelling animal shows**

* for the commercial exhibition of animals

**Especially for animal fairs**

* for the purpose of exchanging or selling animals by third parties

## Responsible Department

KVR
## Required Documents

* completed application form (see below)
* a certificate of good conduct "for submission to an authority" (document type 0)
* for commercial activities, information from the central trade register

When applying for the above documents, please note that the certificate of good conduct and extract from the central trade register will be sent directly to the City of Munich, KVR-III/41.

## Prerequisites

The applicant's place of residence or place of business must be in the city of Munich.

## Please Note

Anyone who does not have the required licence in accordance with Section 11 of the Animal Welfare Act, even though they are carrying out an activity that requires a licence, must expect a fine.

## Legal Basis

§ 11 Animal Welfare Act

## Further Links

* [Further information on animal welfare](https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/tierschutz.html)
* [Application for a licence in accordance with § 11 of the Animal Welfare Act](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dam/jcr:8f7d56e3-2a55-4fa0-85e9-f2256909a823/Antrag%20auf%20%C2%A711%20TSchG%20Erlaubnis.pdf)
* [Application according to § 11 Animal Welfare Act for circuses](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dam/jcr:7bb2f30d-3431-4537-bf41-b9e05005931d/Antragsformular%20Tierschutzgesetz%20Zirkusbetriebe.pdf)
* [Appendix 1 to the application for circuses](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dam/jcr:b5e4c645-ad95-492e-ba11-0aff73b9640f/anlage%201%20antrag%20zirkusbetriebe.pdf)
* [Appendix 2 to the application for circuses](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dam/jcr:465b2fa1-44ad-41f1-a864-ea011f713cf8/anlage%202%20antrag%20zirkusbetriebe.pdf)
* [Application in accordance with Section 11 of the Animal Welfare Act for animal fairs](https://stadt.muenchen.de/dam/jcr:5323c027-6b93-4d8e-a46c-1eaac158e904/Antrag%20%C2%A7%2011%20Tierschutzgesetz%20Tierb%C3%B6rsen.pdf)

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