Requirements that you must fulfill in order to obtain a type 1 permit (transport duration up to 8 hours):

• You are based in Germany or, if based in a third country, have a representative in Germany.
• You have proven that you have sufficient and suitable personnel as well as sufficient and suitable equipment and procedures.
• You or your representatives are not known to have committed serious infringements of Community and/or national animal welfare legislation in the last three years. If, in the opinion of your competent veterinary office, you have provided sufficient evidence that you have taken all necessary measures to avoid further infringements, an approval may still be granted.

Requirements that you must fulfill in order to obtain a type 2 approval (transport duration longer than 8 hours):

• You fulfill all the requirements for a type 1 approval.
• You have submitted valid certificates of competence for all drivers and attendants used for long journeys.
• You have submitted valid certificates of approval for all means of road transport to be used for long journeys.
• You have submitted details of your procedures for recording the movements and tracking of your road vehicles.
• You have submitted details of your procedures for keeping in constant contact with your drivers.
• You have submitted contingency plans to be used in urgent cases.

If you are a farmer, you do not need a license to transport animals in your own agricultural vehicles or means of transport in cases where, for geographical reasons, transport is required as part of the seasonal migration of certain animal species (e.g. upbringing or downbringing), or to transport your own animals in your own means of transport over a distance of less than 50 km from your farm.

You also do not need a license

• for the transportation of vertebrate animals that is not connected with an economic activity, and
• the transportation of animals directly to or from a veterinary practice or veterinary clinic under the supervision of a veterinarian.