Notification of primary production premises
- Permit or other obligation
- Turku
- Public service
The primary producer must submit a written notification to the municipal food control authority of the primary production premises and operations. A notification is not needed in case the authority is notified of the primary production premises by another authority.
Primary production means the production, rearing or growing of primary products. It includes harvesting, milking and all stages of ...
Do the following
Submit a written notification for the municipal food control authority about your place of primary production and your production operations there.
In the notification, include
- your name and contact information
- your business ID, holding code or customer code or, if these are not available, your personal identity code
- the address and name of the place of primary production and its visiting address and municipality
- information on the nature and scale of operations
- the estimated start of operations.
- Complete the notification form for the primary production premises and operations.
- Send the completed notification form to Turku Environmental Health by post or by email. You can also bring the form to the Urban Environment Customer Service as a customer of environmental health.
To whom and on what terms
The operator must ensure that the place of primary production, the production carried on there and the products of primary production produced meet legal requirements. Product safety must not be compromised.
The operator must notify about changes to the primary production, suspension of the production for more than a year or termination of the production. The food control authority must be notified by latest when the changes enter into force.
A notification is not required for hunting, supplying wild game directly to the consumer or picking wild plants and mushrooms.
Deadline
The notification of new operations must be made well in advance before commencing the operations. The operations may be started even if the notification process is still under way.
Deliver the notification form to Turku Environmental Health no later than four weeks before the start of operations.
Period of validity
The notification is valid for an indefinite term.