Animal Housing Facilities
When you are going to build or renovate an animal housing facility, it may need to be approved before work begins. This is called advance approval (förprövning). The advance approval ensures that building plans meet the requirements for how animals may be kept.
You may need to apply for advance approval if you are going to build, renovate, or extend a stable or other animal housing facility, use a space for animal keeping that was previously used for something else, or set up an enclosure. The County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen) reviews your planned construction based on the Animal Welfare Act (djurskyddslagen), Animal Welfare Ordinance (djurskyddsförordningen), and the Swedish Board of Agriculture's regulations on animal keeping.
Requirements for Advance Approval
- Construction: Advance approval required for building, renovating, or extending a stable or other animal housing facility.
- Change of use: If a space is to be used for animal keeping that was previously used for something else.
- Enclosures: Setting up enclosures may require advance approval.
- Decision time: After the application is complete, you receive a decision within 8 weeks.
- Completion: Construction work must be completed no later than 3 years after the application is approved.
Application Procedure
- Application: Fill in the advance approval application form and send it to the County Administrative Board.
- Final inspection: When construction is completed, you must notify the County Administrative Board for final inspection. Application for final inspection is made via the County Administrative Board's e-service.
- Supervision: The County Administrative Board conducts supervision and ensures that animal welfare requirements are met.