Country: GERMANY
BSL: active
and enforced.
BSL Details: various limits on state level, such strictly prohibiting
several breeds (as in Bavaria) or muzzle and leash bans plus mandatory neutering
and breeding prohibitions (Lower-Saxony and most others).
Country-wide: laws prohibiting the import, breeding and unlicensed
ownership of 4 breeds (APBT, AST, SBT and BT); random searching of property of
owners of said breeds without search warrants; threat of prison sentences for
unlicensed ownership of these breeds; licensing process entirely undisclosed;
dozens of lawsuits on state and federal level pending.
Animal
Law (Dogs - section 530 : 12 April 2001)
– see pages 26, 27, 28
Import Regulations BGBl. Teil 1
Bundesgesetzblatt Nr. 43 - 16.August 1999 page 1820
Bundesanzeiger web site
For more information on the breed specific legislation see the following
German government web sites:
http://www.bundestag.de
& http://www.bundesrat.de
Information can also be obtained from the German
Kennel Club and Club
für Molosser e.V.
Individual State regulations (in German): Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bayern
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen Hamburg
Hessen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen
Nordrhein-Westfalen Rheinland
Pfalz Saarland
Sachsen Sachsen-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thüringen
Information can also be obtained from the German
Kennel Club.
If you can supply web links for the missing
states or any further relevant links please email Andrina
Morton.
Anti-BSL/BSL Information:
German originated/based anti-BSL and bsl information web sites:
Hund und Halter
Maulkorbzwang
Statement by the vet association
Do Not
Buy AGFA Products
Contacts:
Karsten Titgemeyer
Info@hund-und-halter.de
Media Links:
TV
ARD
Prosieben
RTL
Sat1
ZDF
Newspapers
Die Tageszeitung
Die Weld
Die
Zeit
Franffurter Allgemeine
Focus Magazine
Spiegel Magazine
Stern Magazine
Tabloid
Bild
Kennel Club:
German Kennel Club VDH
Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen e.V.
Postfach 10 41 54
Westfalendamm 174
44041 Dortmund
info@vdh.de
Tel.: +49- 231 - 56 50 00
Fax: +49- 231 - 59 24 40
CIA World Factbook 2000 listing: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html
Rescue/Re-home Links:
Click here
for world-wide Breed Specific Rescue links.
http://www.bullterrier-in-not.de
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Revised - 2004-09-05 at 20:25:33 PST