Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act

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Basic data
Title: Law on the remuneration of experts, interpreters, translators and the remuneration of honorary judges, witnesses and third parties
Short title: Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act
Abbreviation: JVEG
Type: Federal law
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany             
Legal matter: Administration of justice , cost law
References : 367-3
Issued on: May 5, 2004 ( BGBl. I p. 718 )
Entry into force on: July 1, 2004
Last change by: Art. 5 G of October 11, 2016
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2222, 2224 )
Effective date of the
last change: 		October 15, 2016
(Art. 10 G of October 11, 2016)
GESTA : C081
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act ( JVEG for short ) took the place of the Law on Compensation for Witnesses and Experts (ZuSEG) and the Law on Compensation for Honorary Judges in Germany with effect from July 1, 2004 . It regulates the remuneration and compensation of the named persons if they are called upon by a court or a public prosecutor's office. The law sometimes met with great resentment among those affected, for example it disadvantages interpreters and translators compared to the previous law, the ZuSEG. This profession suffered revenue losses of an average of 25 to 30%. Although many OLG rulings granted translators the right to higher line prices due to the difficulty of legal texts, these are not approved by the responsible cost officials on the instructions of the district auditors at the courts. The courts insist on remuneration according to the standard rate.

The experts are assigned according to the individual fee groups 1 (surveying technology) to 10 (company valuation) in the range from 65 to 125 EUR / hour. plus some additional costs (notices, photos). The hourly rates for the individual fee groups are regulated in § 9 JVEG, the allocation to a fee group according to subject areas is determined according to Appendix 1 to § 9 Paragraph 1 JVEG. Under certain conditions, the expert can be granted a higher remuneration with the consent of the parties or participants in accordance with Section 13 Paragraphs 1 and 2 JVEG.

Since the end of 2008, a survey of the Ö. B. u. v. Experts , but this had not yet started by mid-February 2009. The survey has now been completed. Thereafter, the classifications and the hourly rates were redesigned.

These changes came into force on August 1, 2013 as part of the “Second Cost Law Modernization Act”. The hourly rate was increased by around 20% and the fee groups were re-classified.

literature

  • Karl Josef Binz, Josef Dörndorfer, Rainer Petzold, Walter Zimmerman: Court Fees Act, Law on Court Fees in Family Matters, Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act. Commentary , 3rd revised edition, CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65680-4 .
  • Peter Hartmann: cost laws. Short comment . 47th completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70119-1 .
  • Meyer / Höver / Bach / Oberlack (Ed.): JVEG - The remuneration and compensation of experts, witnesses, third parties and honorary judges. Commentary , 27th edition, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-452-28726-7 .
  • Hagen Schneider: JVEG Justizvergütungs- und -entschädigungsgesetz Commentary , 3rd, completely revised edition, Bundesanzeiger Verlag, CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70934-0 .

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