DE - Germany
This page includes links to domestic public authorities and national organisations where useful information and resources relevant to the audiovisual sector can be found. Indicative translations of the names of linked organisations are given for reference.
Main Public Institutions and Administrative Bodies
- Bundeskanzleramt - Federal Chancellery
- Bundeskanzlerin – Chancellor
- Bundestag - Lower chamber of the German Parliament
- Bundesrat - Federal Council
- Bundesregierung - Federal Government
- Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien - Minister of State for Culture and Media
- Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) - Federal Constitutional Court
- Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) - Federal Court of Justice
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht (BVerwG) - Federal Administrative Court
Regional Governments and Parliaments (Länder)
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Lower Saxony
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
Official Publishing and Statistical Organisations
- Bundesanzeiger Verlag - Federal Gazette
- Statistisches Bundesamt - Federal Statistic Office
Regulatory Authorities for Audiovisual and Communication Sectors
- Bundesnetzagentur - Federal Network Agency
- Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) - Commission on Concentration in the Media
- Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) - Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media
- Die Medienanstalten - Association of Regulatory Authorities for Broadcasting
Regional Regulatory Authorities - Classified by alphabetical order here.
Competition Authority
- Bundeskartellamt - Federal Competition Authority
Data Protection Authority
- Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit - Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Self and Co-regulatory Bodies
- ZDF-Fernsehrat - ZDF Television Council
- Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (FSF) - Self-regulatory Body for Television
- Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK) - Self-regulatory Body for Film
- Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter (FSM) - Self-regulatory Body for Online Media
- Deutscher Werberat - Advertising Council
Copyright and Intellectual Property Offices
- Referat Urheber- und Verlagsrecht, Bundesministerium der Justiz - Unit Copyright and Publishing Law of the Federal Ministry of Justice
- Deutsche Patent- und Markenamt (DMPA) - German Patent and Trademark Office
Copyright Collecting Societies
- Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) - Collecting Society for Performers' and Reproduction Rights
- Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (AGICOA) - Film and Television Rights Collecting Society
- Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten (GLV) - Neighbouring Rights Collecting Society
- Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (GWFF) - Film and Television Rights Collecting Society
- Treuhandgesellschaft Werbefilm (TWF) - Collecting Society for the rights of Film Producers
- Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten (VFF) - Collecting Society of Film and Television producers
- Verwertungsgesellschaft für Nutzungsrechte an Filmwerken (VGF) - Copyright Collecting Society of Film Producers and Distributors
- Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten (GÜFA) - Film Rights Collecting Society
- Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen (VG Media) - Media Companies' Rights Collecting Society
- VG Musikedition - Music Editors' Rights Collecting Society
- Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (VG Wort) - Authors and Publishers' Rights Collecting Society
- Verwertungsgesellschaft BILD-KUNST (VG Bild-Kunst) - Visual Arts Creators' Rights Collecting Society
Film Institutions
- Filmförderungsanstalt - Federal Film Board
- Kuratorium junger deutscher Film - Federal funding body for new talents
- German Films
- MEDIA Desk Deutschland - Desk of the MEDIA Programme
Television and On-demand Audiovisual Services
For a list of television and on-demand audiovisual services in this country search the MAVISE database
- Rundfunkbeitrag - Information on TV licence fee system
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