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The BAES is responsible for sovereign tasks relating to the approval of seeds, plant varieties, plant protection products, fertilisers and establishments placing animal feed on the market. The approva

This is laid down in § 12 of the Marketing Standards Act BGBl. I No. 68/2007 as amended. Accordingly, persons may be appointed as controlling bodies who have completed at least one vocational secondar

In any case, the content of the export confirmation is the confirmation the registration/approval of the production plant, the control of the operation by the Federal Office for Food Safety as part of the official control and, that the exported feed complies with the relevant EU rules.

Current situation The existing EU fertilizer law (Regulation EC 2003/2003 on fertilizers of 13.10.2003) regulates the placing on the market and thus the trade of mineral fertilizers within the EU. The main weaknesses of this aging regulation are its limited scope (mineral fertilisers only), lack of

For livestock feed, including feed for horses, traceability must be ensured by establishing the identity of the purchaser. If this should not be possible due to disproportionately high administrative expenditure or should not be accepted by the customer (refusal of the disclosure of personal data or

The amendment to the Feedstuffs Ordinance has resulted in the following amendment: "§ 10. (2) In the Federal State of Vienna, the Provincial Governor is responsible for monitoring the placing on the market of feed for pets." This paragraph is deleted by the amendment. In future, BAES will also be re

The Federal Office for Food Safety (BAES) was established by the Health and Food Safety Act GESG (Federal Law Gazette I No. 63/2002 as amended) . The BAES is a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Ag