Submit notification to the Veterinary Drug Dispensing Registry (TAR).

If you, as a pharmaceutical company or wholesaler, dispense certain veterinary drugs containing antimicrobials or certain substances to veterinary home pharmacies or other recipients, you must report the quantities annually to the Veterinary Drug Dispense Quantity Registry.

When dispensing veterinary drugs to veterinary home pharmacies and other recipients with the following active ingredients, you as a pharmaceutical company or wholesaler must submit an annual notification to the Veterinary Drug Dispensing Registry (TAR):

• antimicrobial active substances according to § 45 paragraph 6 number 1 Tierarzneimittelgesetz (TAMG).
• Substances according to § 45 paragraph 6 number 2 of the German Veterinary Medicinal Products Act (TAMG).

An updated list of veterinary medicinal products subject to notification is compiled each May and November by the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) from the official Medicines Information System (AmAnDa).

This list contains information that is necessary in order to be able to assign the respective medicinal product individually without any problems:

• Marketing authorization number (ZNR)
• Unit of the reference quantity
• All approved package sizes including the package size factor

• Creation and upload of a complete XML schema according to concrete specifications for the web application "Tierarzneimittel-Abgabemengen-Register" (TAR)

• Forms available: No
• Written form required: No
• Informal application possible: No
• Personal appearance required: No
• Online service available: Yes

You are a pharmaceutical company or wholesaler and supply veterinary medicinal products with the following active substances to veterinary home pharmacies and other recipients:

• Substances having antimicrobial activity according to point 1 and point 2, paragraph 5 and paragraphs 7 to 10 of the Annex to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/578 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/6.
• Substances included in one of the appendices of the Ordinance on Substances with Pharmacological Activity in the version published on July 8, 2009 (Federal Law Gazette I page 1768) or Table 2 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No. 37/2010

• No legal remedy is given.

You can submit the notification for the Tierarzneimittel-Abgabemengen-Register (TAR) online to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) as follows:

• Call up the web application "Tierarzneimittel-Abgabemengen-Register" (TAR) .
• To request access data, please send an e-mail to TAM-Abgabemengenregister@bvl.bund.de.
• After receiving the access data, please perform a password reset.
• After that, log in to the web application "Tierarzneimittel-Abgabemengen-Register" (TAR).
• Upload the XML schema created in advance, according to the known specifications.
• The web application validates and checks your file automatically. In case of error messages, make the appropriate correction. In case of unsolvable errors, send a support request to TAM-Abgabemengenregister@bvl.bund.de.
• The BVL checks the data at the end of the reporting period and contacts you in case of queries.

The reporting period starts at the beginning of January. The report must be submitted in electronic form as an XML file with a deadline of March 31 of each year.

There are no costs for you for reporting via the reporting portal "TAM-Abgabemengen-Register".