If you wish to provide legal services in the following areas, you must register with the competent authority:
- Debt collection services,
- Pension advice in the field of pension advice, in the field of statutory pension and accident insurance, social compensation law, other social insurance and disability law relating to a statutory pension as well as occupational and occupational pension schemes.
- Legal services in a foreign law; if the foreign law is the law of a member state of the European Union or another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, advice may also be provided in the field of European Union law and the law of the European Economic Area.
Prerequisites:
You must be personally suitable and reliable. Important criteria for the required reliability are previous experience (in particular any criminal offenses) and financial circumstances. Furthermore, you need proof of special expertise (theoretical and practical) in the relevant areas of law. Natural and legal persons as well as companies without legal personality can be registered. The application can be limited to one or more of the following sub-areas of legal services in a foreign law: "intellectual property law" and "tax law".
If necessary for the protection of legal practitioners or legal transactions, registration may be made subject to conditions or linked to requirements.
Legal services in connection with another activity are permitted without registration in the legal services register if they are an ancillary service of the profession or activity. Legal services provided in connection with one of the following activities are deemed to be permitted ancillary services:
- Execution of wills,
- property and housing management,
- subsidy advice.