Fee schedule
Fee schedules are legal standards for billing of fees as consideration for services rendered services .
General
Fee schedules can be standardized by the legislator in the form of laws , ordinances or statutes . However, various non-governmental economic entities also have the right, within the framework of contractual freedom , to issue fee agreements for their activities within the framework of their respective tasks.
species
In Germany there are u. a. Fee schedule for certain professional groups:
There are also fee schedules for various special areas of activity, u. a .:
- Street cleaning fees in the municipal street cleaning statutes,
- Waste fees in the municipal waste statutes or
- for the use of public facilities , e.g. B. Swimming pools, halls and squares (usually referred to here as the entrance fee ).
There are also general fee schedules, e.g. B .:
- the court and notary fees law ,
- the court costs law ,
- the law on court costs in family matters .
Historically there were fee schedules for
- Lawyers , today the Lawyers' Remuneration Act ,
- Architects and engineers, today fee schedule for architects and engineers .
fees
The fees charged by the fee schedule are not always fees in the legal sense, so that the root word fee can be misleading, because the legal term fee schedule is not legally defined .
See also
- Market transparency
- Customs tariff
