Sino-German rule of law dialogue
The German-Chinese Rule of Law Dialogue is an agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China . During a state visit to China in November 1999, Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder proposed such an agreement, which was then signed on June 30, 2000 between the Bureau for Legislative Affairs at the State Council and the Federal Ministry of Justice . Annual bilateral symposia and regular working meetings of specialist delegations took place in the ministries involved.
Symposia
The symposia were:
- Legal binding of the administration and individual legal protection . Beijing, June 12th and 13th, 2000.
- Legal framework for doing business in a market economy - State regulation and protection of the legitimate rights and interests of citizens and businesses . Berlin, October 8th and 9th, 2001.
- The rule of law of the market economy - promoting creditworthiness and legal security for citizens and companies . Beijing, May 20 and 21, 2002.
- Internet law / information technology law . Berlin, November 10th and 11th, 2003.
- Powers of the state and protection of civil rights in emergency situations . Beijing, Beijing, May 17th and 18th, 2004.
- The disclosure of government and administrative information . Hamburg, June 20 and 21, 2005.
- 2nd Chinese-German Symposium on the Rule of Law Dialogue , May 2006
- The 3rd Chinese-German Symposium for October 2007 on the rule of law dialogue , planned for October 23, 2007 in Munich, was canceled by the Chinese government for "technical reasons". This happened after protests by the Chinese government against the reception of the Dalai Lama by Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Federal Chancellery on October 23, 2007.
- Criminal Procedure Law in the Rule of Law (2011)
- Regulatory systems and mechanisms to protect consumer rights in the digital age (2016)
German-Chinese legal institute, ZChR
Other activities include legal advice projects by GTZ and the establishment of a German-Chinese legal institute at a university in Beijing, where standard legal literature is translated from German into Chinese. Another German-Chinese legal institute exists at Nanjing University , the German-Chinese Institute for Law , which was founded in 1989 together with the Georg-August University of Göttingen . The institute started publishing the Chinese Law Journal (1994).