Register a food business

• Use the form available if necessary and send it to the competent food control authority.
• In any case, the required information on the food business must be submitted to the food control authority for registration before the start of activity, in case of doubt send the required information in writing to the competent food control authority
• The competent food control authority shall record the operating data.
• If there are changes, in particular in the work technology process, or conversions, to the information or data already recorded or if you wish to deregister your food business, please also contact the responsible food control authority.

Registration takes place with the administrations responsible for food control in the districts or the five independent cities of Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Ludwigshafen, Mainz and Trier.

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

• Restaurants
• artisanal and industrial manufacturers
• Farms and winegrowers
• Companies that only carry food marginally in their assortment, such as petrol stations, pharmacies, drugstores and fitness studios
• Establishments which supply food free of charge, such as the food banks
• Businesses engaged in a purely brokerage activity
• Schools, kindergartens, old people's homes, club homes that regularly deliver food (canteen, canteen)
• Entrepreneurs who offer food on the Internet. It does not matter whether they use the food
  • on your own homepage,
  • via other providers or
  • on marketplaces such as eBay or Amazon.

Your company has not yet been registered with the competent authority or there have been changes in the work technology process or changes to the information or data already recorded or you want to deregister your food business.

• Form or informal if applicable
• Details of the name, address and legal form of the food business
• For each permanent establishment, the legal form, the name and the address of the permanent establishment belonging to the company must be stated separately
• For each permanent establishment, the following must also be specified separately: the respective activity and the operating mode

• The data and registration details must be reported before the start of the activity.
• Significant changes in the work technology process or conversions must be reported immediately.

• Article 1(2) and Article 6(1) to (3) Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs
• Article 15, paragraph 5 Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities to ensure the application of feed and food law, animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products

• Forms: yes
• Written form required: yes
• Personal appearance at the time of application on site: no
• Online service: no

20.01.2022