Rechtsdienstleistungen aufgrund besonderer Sachkunde Registrierung von Personen die Inkassodienstleistungen erbringen

Would you like to offer debt collection services? Then you need to be registered in the legal services register, for which you must provide proof of your specialist knowledge.

Every legal service is a responsible activity for which you must meet various requirements. This serves to protect those seeking legal advice from unqualified legal services.

If you offer debt collection services, you collect outstanding debts such as unpaid invoices for others. If you wish to provide this as a business, you must prove your personal suitability and expertise and register with the Legal Services Register.

You can apply for registration as

• a natural person
• a legal entity
• a partnership with legal capacity

Legal entities include, for example

• Limited liability company (GmbH)
• associations
• foundations

Partnerships with legal capacity include, for example

• Civil law partnership (GbR)
• General partnership (oHG)

As a legal entity or partnership with legal capacity, you must appoint a natural person to represent you externally and who meets the professional requirements.

Registration in the legal services register only allows you to work in the extrajudicial area and in judicial dunning procedures.

When registering, you may be subject to conditions that can be imposed or changed at any time.

If you are established in another country of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) to practice a comparable profession, you can apply for temporary registration.

You can register via the Single Point of Contact (SPC) in your federal state.

Once you have been registered, the competent registration authority will arrange for your registration to be publicly announced in the Legal Services Register.

• Description of your professional training with supporting documents
• Description of your previous professional experience with supporting documents
• Certificate of good conduct, which will be sent directly to the competent registration authority
• Declaration that no insolvency proceedings are pending against you as the applicant
• Declaration that you as the applicant have not been entered in the debtor register in the 3 years prior to submitting the application

• You have the personal suitability and reliability. This means that
  • You have an orderly financial situation.
  • You have no significant criminal record.
• You have theoretical and practical specialist knowledge.
• You can prove your specialist knowledge through
  • Professional training
  • Professional practice
• You have professional liability insurance with a minimum sum insured of EUR 250,000 for each insured event.
• Legal entities and partnerships with legal capacity must nominate at least one natural person who meets all the necessary requirements.

The following information is available:

If you provide debt collection services without being registered, you are committing an administrative offense. The offense can be punished with a fine of up to EUR 50,000.

• Objection or immediately Action before the administrative court
• In case of rejection Appeal decision: Action before the administrative court

• Legal services based on special expertise Registration of persons providing debt collection services
• Debt collection services are only permitted with registration in the legal services register, as special expertise must be demonstrated
• The registration can be obtained by
  • natural persons
  • legal entities
  • partnerships with legal capacity
• Registration may be subject to conditions that can be imposed or amended at any time
• Registration only permits extrajudicial activities and judicial dunning procedures
• Temporary registration possible for applicants who are established in another country of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) to practice a comparable profession
• Registration also possible via the Single Point of Contact (SPC) of the respective federal state
• Responsible: competent registration authority of the place of main establishment
• Responsible for applicants who are not registered in Germany: any competent authority