Economic Criminal Chamber
The commercial criminal chamber is a special criminal chamber at the regional court , whose jurisdiction in Germany is regulated according to § 74c GVG .
She is responsible for criminal offenses
- after the Patent Act , the Utility Model Act , the Semiconductor Act , the Plant Variety Protection Act , the Trademark Act , the Design Act , the Copyright Act , the law against unfair competition , the Stock Corporation Act , the law on accounting of certain companies and groups , the Law on private limited Liability , the Commercial Code , the SE Implementation Act , the Act to Implement the EEC Regulation on the European Economic Interest Grouping , the Cooperative Act , the SCE Implementation Act and the Transformation Act
- according to the laws on banking, custody , stock exchange and credit as well as according to the Insurance Supervision Act and the Securities Trading Act ,
- according to the Economic Criminal Act 1954 , the Foreign Trade Act , the foreign exchange management laws as well as the financial monopoly, tax and customs law , also insofar as its criminal provisions are applicable under other laws; this does not apply if the same act constitutes a criminal offense under the Narcotics Act , and not for tax offenses that affect vehicle tax ,
- according to the wine law and food law ,
- the subsidy fraud , the capital investment fraud , the credit fraud , of the bankruptcy , the creditor favoring and the debtor favoring ,
- the anti-competitive agreements in tenders and the bribery and commercial bribery ,
also in the case of criminal offenses
- of fraud, of computer fraud , the infidelity , the usury , the advantages granted , the bribery and deprivation and Veruntreuens of wages ,
- according to the Temporary Employment Act and the Third Book of the Social Code as well as the Anti-Illicit Work Act ,
insofar as special knowledge of economic life is required to assess the case.
Commercial criminal chambers do not exist in all regional courts. According to Section 74c (3) of the GVG, there is the option of concentrating white-collar crime cases for the districts of several regional courts at one regional court.
