Legal basis
This page will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the legal framework for the external sector. Information on the most important laws, regulations and international agreements governing cross-border trade and investment can be found here. These include the Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG), the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung - AWV) as well as relevant EU regulations and international trade agreements.
Statutory basis
We provide a link to the Federal Ministry of Justice. There you will find all national laws and regulations that constitute the legal framework for external sector statistics. We refer you to the Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG), the Bundesbank Act (Gesetz über die Deutsche Bundesbank - BBankG) and the Federal Statistics Act (Bundesstatistikgesetz - BStatG) (partly in German):
Implementation provisions
Circulars on reporting requirements before 2002
in German only