Passport Ordinance

Basic data
Title:	Ordinance on the implementation of the Passport Act
Short title:	Passport Ordinance
Abbreviation:	PassV
Type:	Federal Ordinance
Scope:	Federal Republic of Germany
Legal matter:	Administrative law
References :	210-5-12
Issued on:	October 19, 2007 ; ( BGBl. I p. 2386 )
Entry into force on:	November 1, 2007
Last change by:	Art. 1 Regulation of 15 February 2017 ; ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 162 )
Effective date of the ; last change:	March 1, 2017 ; (Art. 3 of February 15, 2017)
Weblink:	Text of the regulation
	Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The ordinance for the implementation of the Passport Act , officially abbreviated as the Passport Ordinance , of October 19, 2007 is a German statutory ordinance issued at federal level that regulates details of passport law based on authorizations in the Passport Act . It came into force on November 1, 2007 as Article 1 of the Ordinance Amending Passport Law and Other Provisions .

Subjects of regulation

The ordinance regulates the following items:

Passport sample,
Exemption from the passport requirement and passport substitute papers ,
Official passports and
Fees.

predecessor

The content of the following ordinances was replaced by the Passport Ordinance and expired at the same time as the Passport Ordinance came into force on November 1, 2007:

the passport sample ordinance,
the previous ordinance on the implementation of the Passport Act,
the ordinance on official passports of the Federal Republic of Germany and
the passport fee ordinance.

With the amending ordinance of August 8, 2005, it was determined that biometric data in the form of a photo stored in a storage medium are included in the travel, service and diplomatic passport and that these passports are marked with the corresponding signet on the passport cover.

materials

Draft of the ordinance amending passport law and other regulations (BR-Drs. 373/07) (PDF; 7.98 MB)

Web links

Text of the passport ordinance (with images of the passport samples in the annexes)

Individual evidence

↑ See Art. 4 of the ordinance amending passport law and other provisions .
↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior : Second ordinance amending passport regulations. dip.bundestag.de, August 8, 2005, accessed on January 4, 2017 (DIP, the documentation and information system for parliamentary processes; see also Federal Law Gazette 2005 I p. 2306 ; 45.17 MB).

[1] See Art. 4 of the ordinance amending passport law and other provisions .

[2] Federal Ministry of the Interior : Second ordinance amending passport regulations. dip.bundestag.de, August 8, 2005, accessed on January 4, 2017 (DIP, the documentation and information system for parliamentary processes; see also Federal Law Gazette 2005 I p. 2306 ; 45.17 MB).