(1) 1In accordance with section 23, the following information is accessible via the website of the transparency register:
- entries in the transparency register on reports under section 20 (1) sentence 1, (2) sentence 4 and under section 21,
- announcements concerning the existence of a shareholding under section 20 (6) of the Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz),
- voting rights notifications under sections 40 and 41 of the Securities Trading Act,
- lists of the shareholders of limited liability companies and entrepreneurial companies under section 8 (1) no. 3 and section 40 of the Limited Liability Companies Act (Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung) as well as partnership agreements under section 8 (1) no. 1 in conjunction with section 2 (1a) sentence 2 of the Limited Liability Companies Act, if they are deemed to be lists of shareholders under section 2 (1a) sentence 4 of the Limited Liability Companies Act,
- entries in the commercial register,
- entries in the partnership register,
- entries in the cooperative society register,
- entries in the register of associations.
2The documents and entries specified in sentence 1 nos. 2 to 8 are accessible to the extent set out for inspection in the particular provisions of register law only if they can be retrieved electronically from the public registers specified in section 20 (2) sentence 1.
(2) 1In order to provide access to the original data under subsection (1) sentence 1 nos. 2 to 8 via the website of the transparency register, the (index) data needed for this must be transmitted to the transparency register. 2The operator of the company register transmits the index data for the original data under subsection (1) sentence 1 nos. 2 and 3 to the transparency register. 3The justice administrations of the Länder (Landesjustizverwaltungen) transmit the index data for the original data under subsection (1) sentence 1 nos. 4 to 8 to the transparency register. 4The index data serve only to mediate access and may not be made accessible.
(3) 1The Federal Ministry of Finance is authorised to regulate, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, by means of a statutory instrument not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat, technical details of the data transmission between the authorities of the Länder and the transparency register for data transmission under subsection (2) sentence 3, including provisions for the data formats to be used and for guaranteeing data protection and data security. 2Derogations from the procedural rules by the law of a Land are inadmissible.
(4) The Federal Ministry of Finance is authorised to regulate, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, by means of a statutory provision not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat, registration procedures for the parties subject to a notification obligation under sections 20 and 21, as well as technical details of the data transmission under subsection (2) sentence 2 and sections 20 and 21, including provisions on which data formats and forms to use and for guaranteeing data protection and data security.
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