Signatures: Certification Unfortunately this specification of service has not yet been completely translated.

The official certification of signatures is used for identity checks. The competent body may certify signatures if:

• the signed document is required for submission to a German authority or agency to be submitted to the signed document on the basis of a legal document, and
• signature is made in the presence of the certifying employee.

Signatures may not be officially certified if:

• require public certification by a notary (Section 129 of the Civil Code (BGB)) e.g.
  • signature certifications under contracts or declarations in the field of family and inheritance law;
  • in association and commercial register matters;
• they are presented without any accompanying text (blank signatures),
• the document submitted is not required for submission to an authority or to any other body to be submitted to the signed document on the basis of a legal document (e.g. so-called "Declarations and declarations of the Reich") or to read through is refused,
• documents are written in a foreign language.