Federal Office of Justice (Germany)

Federal Office of Justice ; - BfJ -
State level	Federation
position	Higher federal authority
Supervisory authority	Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
founding	January 1, 2007
Headquarters	Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia
Authority management	Heinz-Josef Friehe , President
Web presence	www.bundesjustizamt.de

Federal Office of Justice, Bonn, aerial photo (2017)

Federal Office of Justice, Entrance (2012)

The Federal Office of Justice ( BfJ ) is a German higher federal authority that has been responsible for registering as a central office since 2007 ( the Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice was previously responsible ) and for international legal transactions. Furthermore, the prosecution of certain administrative offenses is concentrated at the BfJ. It is subject to the technical supervision of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) and has around 1100 employees. The office of the BfJ is in the federal city of Bonn .

The Federal Office of Justice was founded on January 1, 2007 on the basis of the law establishing and regulating the tasks of the Federal Office of Justice of December 17, 2006.

International treaties and EU legal acts increasingly include the obligation for contracting parties or member states to designate a central contact point. In the context of the European Judicial Network , a national contact point for cross-border traffic must be specified. In addition, there was no central authority responsible for the federal territory for the monitoring ordered by national laws and for the implementation of certain conditions. Some of these tasks have so far been performed by the Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice or they have been performed directly in the Federal Ministry of Justice. A reorganization and concentration of these areas of responsibility as well as a bundling of administrative activities appeared necessary.

tasks

The tasks of the Federal Office include, among other things

the handling of international family law matters, e.g. B. under the Foreign Maintenance Act , the UN Maintenance Convention of 1956 , several custody conventions and the Hague Adoption Convention,

Tasks in the field of registration, e.g. B. Federal Central Register , Central Trade Register , Central prosecutor Royal proceedings register ,

Tasks of international legal relations , e.g. B. as a central office within the European Judicial Network ,

Carrying out criminological research in cooperation with the central criminological office and tasks of crime prevention ,

the prosecution and punishment of administrative offenses, e.g. B. violations of the law against unfair competition ,

Tasks of the general administration of justice, e.g. B. as the enforcement authority for the claims arising at the federal courts and tribunals

Support of the Federal Ministry of Justice in carrying out the proclamations and notices in the Federal Law Gazette Part I and Part II and in the Federal Gazette and in carrying out the automated documentation of standards.

The Federal Office's Competence Center Legal Information System (CC-RIS) started work on January 1, 2013 . It coordinates the documentation of federal laws and ordinances as well as decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court and other federal courts and is intended to ensure that this information is made available to the public.