Animal, Species, and Nature Conservation

• Tierversuche need permission and must protect each animal individually (Individualtierschutz) by law.

Artenschutz

• Focuses of protecting wild animals and plant by control of trade of wild animals.
• Includes measures for protection, care, and promotion of wild flora and fauna.
• Requires preservation, retreat, and expansion areas for all species.

Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen:

• Artenschutzübereinkommen: Trade laws protect wild animals and plants.
• Regulates international trade in endangered species.
• Creates international regulations for importing/exporting endangered wildlife, plants, and their derivatives (food, leather, musical instruments, wood, souvenirs, medicine).
• Examples: ivory and corals.

Naturschutz

• Protects domestic flora and fauna, implementing agreements like Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive.
• Each federal state owns nature protection laws to protect/maintain nature in all forms.
• Includes species of wild plants, free-living animals, and their habitats such as beavers, otters, and lynx.
• Regulates killing/capture prohibitions, destruction/removal bans of eggs, and damage/destruction ban of breeding/resting places.

Difference Between Laws:

• Artenhandelsgesetz: protects species by controlling trade.
• Tierschutzgesetz: protects individual animals.
• Naturschutzgesetze: protects wild plants, free-living animals, and their habitats.

Tierversuchsgesetz

• Protects specific animals used for scientific/educational purposes.
• The goal is to avoid/reduce animal testing, improve conditions for breeding/housing/caring for experimental animals.
• It also promotes alternative testing methods and reduce the burden on experimental animals.
• Follows the 3-R principle: Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement.

Tiertransportgesetz

• Protects animals during transport by motor vehicle/trailer (road transport), aircraft, train, or ship.
• Establishes minimum requirements to prevent the spread of animal diseases in commerce.
• Applies to slaughter animal transports, livestock markets/exchanges, and zoo retailers and private transports.
• Private transports involves the inclusion of a dog in a car for travel.

Tierschutzgesetz (TSchG)

• Includes important definitions, key commandments, bans, and responsibilities.

Animal Owners:

• Must be be able to keep animals involving required knowledge and skills in order to treat them fair.
• Should give animals to associations, institutions, or people who provide good care if unable to do treat them fairly themselves.
• Cannot give animals to minors under 16 without parental consent.
• Each Person being or becoming responsible for animal or has the animal in their care

Competency Test

• As of July 1, 2026, people who own dogs, reptiles, amphibians, or parrots (except lovebirds, flat-tailed parakeets, budgies, cockatiels) need to prove competency.
• It can be done by completing a four-lesson course (60 min lesson) and owners must demonstrate their skills every six months.

Animal Classifications:

• Haustiere: domestic animals like cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses (excluding large/small camels, water buffalo), domestic rabbits, domestic dogs/cats, domestic poultry, and domesticated fish.
• Heimtiere: animals kept as companions or for interest, including domestic animals of the orders Carnivora, Rodentia, Lagomorpha, parrots, finches, doves class Fishes.

Animal Cruelty

• § 5 TSchG: animal abuse is forbidden by causing unjustifiable pain, suffering, or damage to a animal.
• Exceptions: veterinary/medically justified measures and measures for service dogs (police, military) are unnaffected
• Hunting and fishing

German Animal Cruelty

• Explicitly excluded from animal protection laws (Austrian Federal Constitution)
• Problem area for dogs: training/use, deployment of electric shock devices, hunting other animals, and tail docking.
• § 5 TSchG states that causing pain or suffering to an animal without justification can be avoided.

Animal Breeding Regulations

• Breeding that predictably causes pain/suffering/damage/anxiety for the animal or offspring is banned.
• Genetic anomalies must not cause long-term health issues or compromise physiological processes to avoid increased injury risk by law.

Restricted Items

• From January 1, 2025, it is forbidden to use Stachelhalsbänder, Korallenhalsbänder, or electric shock devices to target animal.
  • Also use devices/equipment intending to influence behavior through hardness or punishment or leashes with a tightening mechanism that impairs breathing/causes pain.

Banned Activities

• It is an offense to incite a animal against another, organize animal fights, or conduct dog races on asphalt.
• Also giving animal stimulant/doping agents, engageing it in film/advertisement/similar activities in a way that causes pain and denying animal proper conditions that cause pain.

Animal Welfare Violations:

• Causing animal pain by feeding it harmful materials, force feeding that is not vet needed and neglecting animal by not giving proper care.

Animal Abuse

• It is illegal to abandon a pet or captive wild animal and amputate an animal's limbs.
• Traps must be set to catch animals unharmed or kill them instantly with causing the animals pain.

Permitted Slaughtering

• § 6 TSchG states that it is forbidden to kill animals without good reason like killing dogs/cats for food or shredding live chicks is prohibited.
• Killing viable chicks is permitted in feeding unless the hatchery provides them under anesthesia after the 7th day of incubation which may have negative effects for animal behavior.

Killing Animals and Veterinary

• Killing animals for education is only allowed for scientific facilities.
• It requires a vet to perform euthanasia including killing livestock/feed animals, pest control and cases to spare from incurable pain.

Animal Procedures

• Eingriff is a measure that leads to damage/loss of sensitive part of body or alter bone structure.
• Banned: procedures for aesthetic purposes like tail docking/ear cropping.

Animal Prohibitions

• Exceptions are allowed for fertility control or when necessary for intended use/protection. (Restrictions apply if animal experiences pain without anesthesia.)

Prohibitions of procedures in animals

• The application of rubber rings, astringents, and caustics.
• Tattooing/dyeing skin/feathers/fur for aesthetic/commercial reasons is illegal unless for proper identification.
• The passing on, acquisition and import of certain animals. All animals that cause pain.

New Animal Prohibition

• As of January 1, 2025 it becomes illegal to pass on an animal with non correctable Qualen other the direct schmerzlosen. The Acquirer has a animal to unverzüglich schmerzlos with töten.
• Certain animal procedures are banned as of January 1, 2025, specifically procedures that has has taken place in österreich as well as for commercial/financial reasons.

Selling Animals

• It is a forbidden action to sell or auction of animals.
• Offering animals that need to be bought is only available on certain circumstances.

Regulations for Animals

• Animals can be restricted on display due to their features.
• As of Januarty 1, 2025 it prohibits a person from displaying or presenting with Qualuchtstymptoms.
• It is forbidded to introduce animal that aren't able to reproduce unless they have a permit.

Animal Duty

• A person that in anyway harms a animal should call a animal. Verletzung.

Animal Care

• Animal care Weist die Krankheit ist ein Tier, we must quickly to the animal and is suitable for the animal.

The animal protection law states;

• All federal states need to abide by it and animals must visit the vet often. Animals musst be treated and given lots of gifts.

Animal Misstatements

• Animal Misstatements occur offen with Staatwanwaltschaft § 222 (1). it's ok if they don't need you anyway.

Penalties

• Dogs and cats müssen for his whole lebe and schützen dass wohl. And it will schuntzen a gesaundness lebe ist es.

Minister Regulations

• Animal have different ministers but not that matters that matters is the § 5.

Animal regulations:

• TSchGs include the regulations for all Tierqualerai § 6.

Animal testing:

• Animal testing is needed for peoples with hun and reptile.
• One needs the Sachkunde §13.

Dog laws

• Hundes have to have a Sachkunde §13.

Animal Movement:

• Movement is needed for both dog and man.

Animal registration:

• All registration needs to be sent to the local behörde of Tierarzt.

Dog Requirements:

• It cost to have hunde 72 to 105 euro per jahr.

Animal requirements:

• Animal need to have a hundehaltung 1.

Animal requirements:

• All cat must be a züchter.

§ 24a TSchG

• All Zuchkatzw needs kennzeichnet and registered.

Animal breeding

• All animal breeding need to stop certain gendefckte.

§ 22a TSchG

• Breeders need to be verantung and to have a animal.

§22c TSchG

• All Animal needs need to be in order.

Animal welfare

• Good welfare of animal and more.

Animal Prohibitions

• All Animals need be geahndet with animals need to be bestraft.

HALTUNG UND PFLEGE VON PFERDEN

• Animals include the 1 THVO Anlage 1 bestuhlt with all that the need and photos and the stall of the animal.
• There also Bedenkeihait and all that the need and animal should have access to Koppeln.
• Animals have to have light Lärm and all must have the beste Behandlung.
• All must be veroffenllcht.

Animal Sterbfrale

• It be to be the best and be ännlich and the strafreit zu bewahrlch etc will

HAFTUNG

• Animal must have for a private transporte

Wild Tiere

• Many wilde teire need to be geufurt with a tierarzt.

Tibe is important

• Tierbe are also with Qualaucht.
• Beizjabd and Flaknerei are very important.

Anlage 2 MIndestanforderungen an die Haltung von Vogeln

• The gröse of the Vogel must be important and be geufurt.

Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen CITES

• Washingtoner have artenschutz and must be important.
• Beim Kaufman are must have an übergabe.

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