Questions tagged [germany]
Jurisdiction of Germany.
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What happens if one of the rules in an agreement is violated and there is nothing in that agreement what to do in such a case?
From a purely law perspective,
If one of the rules in a rental agreement is violated and the agreement doesn't specify what happens in such a case, legally speaking, what is the landlord allowed to do?...
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When can I sell 3d models and 2d renders of dead peoples and celebrities?
When is it allowed to create and sell 3d models and 2d renders of existing dead people and celebrities?
I can imagine this is not a easy topic and is different depending on the jurisdiction. Here are ...
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Can i represent myself in a German court without a lawyer?
I want to represent myself in german court because I don't have money for a lawyer (i am a student international )
and I also don't know anything about german laws at all
I have many evidence(gmails/...
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Is it illegal in Germany to spread a list of locations that allow you to violate compulsory mask wearing
I was recently sent a website which, among other terrible health advice, links to a custom google map which allows users to enter locations where they can shop/go to without wearing a face mask (due ...
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Can a shipping company offer a parcel delivery that does not include at least one attempt to deliver?
Suppose you order some item online and then you pay a shipping company to deliver the item to your home address. What exactly is the shipping company contractually obligated to do?
In spite of how ...
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Video surveillance of dedicated laboratory rejected by single employee [Germany]
We have a dedicated laboratory with very expensive and sensitive equipment. When handled incorrectly, they can cause serious harm to the user or others in the laboratory. Our department consists of 5 ...
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Accused of criminal offence and then pay the fine but not convicted
Is it possible that one is accused of a criminal offence in Germany and ask to pay a fine and it was also mentioned that if the fine is paid in within the time limit the case will be discontinued and ...
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Who benefits of a tax reduction in subscription businesses? The company or the client?
Last year a client signed up for a yearly subscription of my product. He paid 14,99 € with 19 % taxes included.
This year the taxes are only 5 %.
How much does the client pay?
Why I asked: PayPal ...
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Renouncing your citizenship but the government doesn't accept; can you still get a stateless person passport from Germany?
[This has been also asked on another site]
I'm just curious:
It is been claimed here that the requirement of having renounced your current citizenship to get German citizenship can be accomplished by ...
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Can a German employer force employees to submit personal data to a contractor?
A German higher-education institution recently introduced a new measure to facilitate Covid-19 contact tracing: next to each door (i.e. entrances to the building, the lecture rooms, the labs and some ...
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Can't renounce my citizenship due to being a deserter; can I apply for a German citizenship?
I'm a Turkish citizen who is studying in Germany for the last 5 years. As might not know, in Turkey, there is compulsory military service for every men. But, I don't want to do it (I don't want to be ...
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In Germany, are doctors within the same institution able to access any patients' medical records?
I have a friend living in Germany who is seeking therapy in her small town. However, a problem that she is facing is that all of the psychological/psychiatric institutions in her town are managed by ...
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Stay in Germany after masters degree
I am going to obtain masters degree in mathematics in Berlin. The market in this field is very competitive.
How I stay in Germany after graduation? (I heard that 3 years, is it true?)
Can I work in ...
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What is German police doing at German/Austrian borders? “Border checks” or “border surveillance”? [duplicate]
Let's start with a definition of "border controls" according to Article 2 of EU Regulation 2016/399:
‘border control’ means the activity carried out at a border, in accordance with and for ...
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Animal rights violation in Germany
How can I report animal right violation that takes place in the business located in Germany? It’s a beauty salon that uses animals for some treatments.
I live outside Germany and unfortunately have no ...
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I want to know if i have the right to push someone if they slapped me in self defense
I have a question, about 3 or 4 months ago, i was just outside chilling with some of my friends and then some girl came and slapped me, all i did was push her back in self defense. I just want to know ...
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What are my rights if someone makes a false police report against me in Germany?
My landlord (also a business owner) in Germany where I live accused me with tons of different type of accusations because he hates me personally, and he called the police on me—at least, I think he ...
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Does the right to use a road affect liability in accidents?
The German traffic law is very restrictive for children on bicycles. In particular Strassenverkehrsordnung §2, section 5 states that children up to 8 years of age are not allowed to bike on roads and ...
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Tariffs for ordering goods from switzerland to Germany
I am a passionate Magic: The Gathering player and as is commonly known some of the older cards can have values of 100€ of euros. I am thinking about ordering such a card from switzerland for the price ...
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What is German police doing at German/Austrian borders? “Border checks” or “border surveillance”?
Let's start with a definition of "border controls" according to Article 2 of EU Regulation 2016/399:
‘border control’ means the activity carried out at a border, in accordance with and for ...
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What happened to border crossing points when border controls have been reintroduced on internal Schengen borders (EU Regulation 2016/399)?
Many Schengen countries reintroduced border controls on internal Schengen border according to Article 25 of EU 2016/399. The procedure how to do it is described in Article 27 of EU 2016/399:
Article ...
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Is it legal to have 2 different standards for “checks within the territory” and when an (internal Schengen) border is crossed in Schengen area?
I have noticed that Germany has two different for "checks within the territory" and when an (internal Schengen) border is crossed.
For crossing an (internal Schengen) border Germany is ...
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Based on which law Germany shall remove illegal third-county citizens on German/Austrian borders?
CJEU C-444/17 says that Article 2(2)a of EU 2008/115/EC does not apply for such removal (CJEU also considers reintroduction of border controls on internal Schengen borders). Article 2 of EU 2008/115/...
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Drink and riding (bicycle) offence in Germany
I am charged with a criminal offence in a drink-and-riding-a-bicycle case. I have received a letter mentioning the alcohol content 1.66 promile. I have accepted the charges and agreed to pay the fine.
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Rent additional costs matter in Germany [closed]
I've rented a furnished apartment from the beginning of 2019 until last month in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The rental contract stated that service charges/additional costs are paid as a monthly flat ...
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Sharing ad revenue [closed]
My friend and I own a website which hosts fan-created content for a video game (character skins, etc.), and make around 800$/month in ad revenue, which we're splitting 50/50. To thank the people ...
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Under which conditions can a lawyer charge for services in Germany?
TL;DR
Person A went through a ridiculous situation and now, almost a year later, the Person B who didn't bother representing her at the court is asking for the money.
Situation
Person A - client
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Does the German GDPR require storing the data in a German datacenter for a tele-health company?
I co-founded a tele-health startup, we are expanding to Germany,
we have gone through the GDPR, and implemented most of it, however, we didn't quite understand the data residency part and found ...
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How can German supermarkets get away with not following the EU regulations, which have been established long ago?
Since 2011, EU regulations on food labeling states require most foods label's to contain nutritional facts of the food.
However, as a person who has been living in Germany for a couple of months, it ...
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Can I leave a EU country (Germany) with an expired visa but with a another already being created?
The case of my friend is: she lives in Germany, has a visa that is already expired, and she already paid for a new one and it is being produced, but the waiting time is 2+ month. She can't wait ...
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Blackmail inside Germany
I have a question about a common problem ... I have a female friend who lives in Saudi Arabia and her ex-boyfriend who lives in Germany blackmailed her with her own private pictures, that if she does ...
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Death of one of two tenant parties during notice period
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Two parties A, B sign a rental contract in Germany. Only party A lives there, party B merely cosigns the contract, but neither makes any payments nor lives in the propery. Party B adopted ...
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Legal status of temporary reintroduction of border controls on internal Schengen borders according to Article 25 of EU 2016/399 by Germany
I would like to ask whether you think that reintroduction of border controls on internal Schengen borders according to Article 25 of EU 2016/399 (Schengen Border Code) by Germany is legal.
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Legality of not-so-obvious rental discrimination
I'm a non-German working in north-west Germany since a couple of years.
I was searching for housing for about a month or so, but never got replies from landlords regarding appointments. The only ...
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Taking a picture of a parking offender while still in the car
I occasionally see car drivers parking on the bike lane that I am using. Usually I take a picture of the car and send if off to the city, they issue a parking ticket. These days I had a case where the ...
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Is the game company required to help and take actions for a player who got scammed in the game for virtual currencies?
According to the answers in this question, you are legally responsible when scamming someone for virtual goods in a game. However, in most of the cases it is very hard to actually get any information ...
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Regarding German Patent attorney candidates
I'm thinking about becoming a German and European patent attorney.
I'm fluent in German (my mother language), English and French, (and Romanian, my other mother language).
The issue is that I have a ...
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Do other countries than Germany have traffic laws that regard a group of civil vehicles as one single vehicle?
I'm mostly interested in the situation in France, but this might be interesting for other countries as well, especially in the context of the current rise of bicycle usage:
Germany has § 27 in its ...
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Am I liable if I know about copyright enfrigement of software my collegue is copying?
If I know about a colleague who is copying public available code into our software stack, infringing copyright law on purpose, too which extent am I liable under German law? Can I refuse working on ...
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Can a child release his own work into e.g. the public domain?
I (15 years old; living in Germany) write software now for ~four years and wondered whether I can release it into the public domain or under some free software license without having to ask somebody. ...
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Equipment purchased not shipped after over 3months
I purchased a ready-to-ship used printer in February 2020, the payment was acknowledged but the company has failed to ship. The printer was to be shipped immediately but its been over three months, no ...
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Reporting exzessive requested and unrequested overtime during Furlough
At least half of our current staff is on furlough(Kurzarbeit).
I am living in Germany and our employer is requesting exzessive amounts of overtime while we are only allowed to work 20-50% of our usual ...
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Is there any legal obligation to banks to offer only one “purpose” field in online banking systems?
I have used numerous online banking interfaces in Germany for money transfer between accounts. While they can be quite different in terms of features such as auto-completion, storage of reusable ...
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how to know if somebody sued you in germany?
2 years ago before I left Germany someone I knew said that he will file a lawsuit against me :(
I am now not in Germany and I didn't give this guy my address in my current country
but how can I know ...
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Notice period for rental contract for a shared flat
In Germany, assume that Allice has a flat (either rented or owned, I think this does not matter) and lives in it herself. She decides to rent one room to Bob with an indefinite contract.
My research ...
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Can my landlord legally not let me do my anmeldung in Germany?
I really need to do my anmeldung so I can start working and get health insurance in Germany now (during corona). I moved out of a youth hostel once it shut down and me and two others found a room for ...
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Is it GDPR-compliant to require *public* publishing of personal info as condition for access to a service?
Background: For roughly 2 decades I've run my own private email infrastructure for myself, open source projects, and a few other individuals over business internet service intended for such usage. I'...
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Is the ZIP Code allowed as part of a ordernumber
We have a Webshop and want to have the Customers ZIP Code within our Order Number.
Is this against the GDPR?
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Does an unlawful contract duration invalidate termination deadlines even after lawful extensions?
The following question is relevant for Germany. The contract of interest is with a gym, which might be relevant because contracts with them sometimes have special rules.
In Germany, a contract with ...
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Can I be sued by a hotel in Germany
I signed a non-refundable contract for a group stay at the Westin Grand Berlin for May 8, 2020. The group had to cancel the trip due to COVID-19 pandemic. The hotel sent me an invoice for the balance ...
