Food business operators; notification of establishments for registration

If you, as a food business operator, carry out activities related to the production, processing and distribution of food (including e-commerce), you must register with the competent district administrative authority.

Food businesses are all businesses that carry out activities related to the production, processing and distribution of food. Food business operators are obliged to report the businesses under their control and important changes in activities as well as business closures. This applies to all businesses that are active at any stage of the processing, production or distribution of food.

Registration takes place at the competent district administrative authority.

Food businesses are, for example

• Operators of food vending machines
• bakeries
• cafés
• Retail stores that carry food or food supplements in their product range
• Ice cream parlors
• Producers of food of animal origin
• Fishing, crustacean, shellfish and mollusc businesses
• restaurants
• Wholesalers, transporters, importers and exporters of foodstuffs
• Snack bars
• kiosks
• Confectioneries
• Kitchens and canteens (including all communal catering facilities)
• Agricultural businesses for the rearing or keeping of food-producing animals
• Food brokers (for example via the Internet)
• Milk bars
• milk processing plants
• mini-markets
• Mobile food trade including sales vehicles
• Primary producers of plant-based foods, such as fruit, vegetables, cereals, herbs
• food banks
• Petrol stations with food sales
• Food transporters
• Events with catering
• Party service and catering

You have a business that produces, processes or sells food.

Your business is not yet registered with the competent authority or there have been changes to the working procedures or modifications to the information or data already recorded or you wish to deregister your food business.

• Use the form provided and send it to the responsible district administrative authority or use the online procedure. If no form is provided, you can register informally.
• The following data is required:
  • Details of the name, address and legal form of the food business
  • The following must be provided separately for each establishment: the legal form, name and address of the establishment belonging to the business
  • The following must also be stated separately for each establishment: the respective activity and the type of operation

• Registration must take place before commencing work.
• Significant changes to the work process or modifications must be reported immediately.