Public list of the registration of associations and their representatives

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The public list on the registration of associations and their representatives , also briefly lobby list , is the President of the Bundestag guided list of interest groups , which the German Bundestag are registered.

The basis is Appendix 2 of the Rules of Procedure of the German Bundestag . There means:

"The President of the Bundestag keeps a public list in which all associations that represent interests vis-à-vis the Bundestag or the federal government are entered."

However, entry in this list is voluntary. Only supra-regional associations are accepted. Individuals, sole proprietorships or regional organizations are not considered. Corporations, foundations and institutions under public law and their umbrella organizations are also not registered.

The information provided by the organizations is accepted unchecked by the Bundestag administration. The list does not reflect the entire spectrum of lobbying in the German Bundestag or in the Federal Republic and cannot be compared with a binding lobby register .

The entry in the lobby list gave rise to the possibility - but not the right - of taking part in hearings in legislative procedures and of receiving house ID cards from the Bundestag. A regulation, according to which an entry was a prerequisite for attending a Bundestag hearing, is suspended by an interpretative decision of the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure of October 18, 1979. The list has been kept since 1972 and published once a year in the Federal Gazette , since 2012 exclusively online.

The number of entries grew until December 2009 when over 2,150 associations were registered. After a slight downward trend, the total number rose again to 2161 (as of August 29, 2013). As of April 30, 2020, 2317 associations were registered.

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  1. ^ Association list article in Lobbypedia , the lexicon of LobbyControl eV