- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals and animal testing
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and COVID-19
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Welfare and public health
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals and animal testing
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Anti-Money Laundering Act
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Education and culture
- Enforcement of alcohol serving and sales
- Estate agents
- Food
- Occupational safety and health
- Oversight of rescue services
- Reporting local authority misconduct
- Resale royalty rights
- Social welfare and health care
- Customer service
Enforcement and coordination of veterinary medical care
What is veterinary medical care?
The role of municipal veterinary medical care service is to arrange the provision of basic veterinary services and urgent veterinary care – also out of hours – in their operating area. Local veterinary medical care services also supervise the health and welfare of animals and enforce food safety and animal by-products regulations. The supervision of animal health includes regular check-ups and testing for contagious animal diseases. Animal by-products refer non-food material derived from the body of an animal. The processing and disposal of animal by-products are governed by regulations to prevent the spread of animal diseases.
Municipalities often arrange the provision of veterinary services in cooperation with other municipalities.
Role of Regional State Administrative Agencies
Regional State Administrative Agencies coordinate the veterinary services provided by municipalities and supervise the health and welfare of animals in line with the Veterinary Care Act.
Municipalities are entitled to compensation from the state to cover the costs of carrying out certain veterinary inspections, such as testing animals for diseases. We take care of the payment of these compensations based on invoices submitted to us. However, livestock farmers are charged for some of these inspection services, such as inspections performed in line with voluntary disease prevention schemes.