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Hunting of protected animal species within the European Union is limited by the Habitats Directive. Each member state must take measures to maintain the favorable conservation status of a species as soon as its conservation status threatens to...

The ThürKormVO of December 9, 2008, was last amended in March 2026. The aim was to allow hunting in the future even in standing waters not used for commercial fish farming, such as waters used exclusively for angling. However, such an objective...

This article analyzes the planned introduction of mandatory video surveillance in slaughterhouses through a new § 4d of the German Animal Welfare Act. It demonstrates that the legislative threshold system already exhibits significant enforcement...

The following text builds upon and further develops the arguments of the preceding part of the article published on pages 14 ff. of this journal’s first issue. This part of the article addresses the practical significance of criminal law issues...

Service dogs are among the most impressive specialists in the government’s security apparatus. They are deployed in complex situations, break through resistance, subdue perpetrators, track down missing persons, detect drugs, explosives, or data...

Sentient animals have an interest in life and therefore a fundamental ethical right not to be killed. They may only be killed if there is an overriding countervailing interest that requires their killing. Only vital interests can be considered in...

The article criticizes the cabinet draft bill to include wolves in the Federal Hunting Act (version of 15 December 2025). It explains why the non-occasion-related hunting proposed in the cabinet draft bill is an unsuitable means of reducing attacks...

Criminal animal law suffers from a significant enforcement deficit, most notably with regard to cruelty against agricultural livestock. The exercise of procedural victim's rights, such as requests to inspect files or to file appeals, could...

Medical criminal law has long enjoyed a growing awareness of its subject matter. This also applies to animal welfare criminal law. Surprisingly, veterinary medicine has so far received little attention in criminal law debates. This must change. The...

German administrative law is structured around the system of subjective legal protection. In the field of animal welfare law, this means that only an excess of animal protection — i. e., when a person is adversely affected by an administrative...

For several years, a deficit in the prosecution of animal welfare offenses in livestock farming has been lamented. This article aims to demonstrate that it is not enough to simply tighten the criminal offense defined in Section 17 of the Animal...