Registration in the legal services register of persons wishing to provide pension advice

Procedure

You apply for registration in the legal services register in the area of pension advice and submit the application together with the other documents to the competent authority.

The competent authority will review your application.

As soon as all requirements have been met and all evidence has been provided, the competent authority will register you and publish the registration in the legal services register.

You will receive notification as to whether registration has taken place.

Legal bases

• § 10 Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz (RDG)
• § 11 Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz (RDG)
• § 12 Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz (RDG)
• § 13 Abs. 1 Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz (RDG)

More information

Legal services register and public announcement:

In accordance with Section 16 of the Legal Services Act (RDG), a transnational legal services register will be established. This serves to provide information free of charge to those seeking legal services, persons offering legal services, the legal profession and other public bodies. Persons who are permitted to provide legal services in one or more of the areas or sub-areas specified in Section 10 (1) RDG (debt collection services, pension advice and legal services in a foreign law) and persons or associations who have been definitively prohibited from providing legal services in accordance with Section 9 (1) RDG are published in the legal services register.

The public announcement pursuant to Section 16 para. 3 sentence 1 RDG is made several times a day by means of a central publication of all registration authorities on these pages.

The publicly published data will be deleted if the requirements of Section 17 RDG are met.

Legal remedy/means of appeal:

Objection within one month