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Cross-check experts; application for approval
Private experts require a license for the examination of officially retained samples.
Forms
Forms
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Anlage zum Antrag - Selbstauskunft
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Anlage zum Antrag - Erklärung Interessenkonflikt
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Anlage zum Antrag - Verpflichtungserklärung
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Procedure details
Description
During official sampling within the meaning of Section 43 of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB) (as well as of tobacco and tobacco products), additional secondary samples are taken for any follow-up examinations, which are left behind at the establishment. Only approved experts are authorized to examine these secondary samples.
Private experts require a license for the examination of officially left samples. In Bavaria, this approval is granted by the government of Upper Franconia.
The licensing authority checks whether the applicant meets the licensing requirements of the Ordinance on the Licensing of Private Counter-Sample Experts and on Regulations for Official Counter-Samples and on the Amendment of the Federal Counter-Sample Expert Testing Laboratories Ordinance.
Requirements
Vocational training
- Food chemists with a state examination to become a state-certified food chemist or
- Approved veterinarians with a qualification as a specialist veterinarian in the field of investigation applied for approval or as a specialist veterinarian for public veterinary services or
- Persons with a university degree in natural sciences with relevant specialist and legal knowledge
Further requirements for the applicant
- at least two years of testing and assessment experience in the requested field/area of testing
- has an accredited testing laboratory
- reliable
- free from conflicts of interest in the performance of his/her work as a cross-checking expert
- not working in the official food, feed and consumer goods monitoring sector
Required documents
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Resume
- official certificate of good conduct
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Declaration that no criminal proceedings or investigation by the public prosecutor are pending
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Declaration that there are no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Section 2 (3) GPV and that the activity is performed independently and free of conflicts of interest
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Professional qualification
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Proof of 2 years' experience in examination and assessment (Annex 1 to Section 2(1) of the GPV).
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Proof of accreditation (certificate / recognition) of the designated testing laboratory
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Submission of the declaration of commitment (Annex 3 to Section 3 (5) GPV)
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If approval for microbiological tests is applied for, if applicable, the permit according to the Infection Protection Act
Fees
75 to 200 euros plus expenses
Deadlines
There are no deadlines to be met.
Legal bases
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Art. 19 - Gesetz über den gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und das Veterinärwesen (GVVG)Gegenprobensachverständige
Appeal
Administrative court action
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Status: 02.05.2025
Editorial responsibility Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz
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