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Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany
5th conference „The Romanian Day of Liberal Professions“
5. November 2012, Bukarest
Rechtsanwältin Nadine Dauer, LL.M.
Bundesverband der Freien Berufe
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Outline
• What are Liberal Professions in Germany?
• Characteristics of Liberal Professions
• Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany
• Potential of Liberal Professions in Europe
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
Variety of Liberal Professional groups:
• Liberal health care professions
• Liberal legal, economic and tax advising professions
• Liberal cultural professions
• Liberal technical and natural scienctific professions
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
Economically active in Liberal Professional are:
• 125.000 in vocational training (apprenticeships)
• 238.000 co-working family members (excluded of social
security contribution)
• 1.192.000 self-employed
• 2.784.000 social security contribution obliged employed
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
Forms of Liberal Professions:
• Regulated Liberal Professions
The legal regulation of the professional laws apply.
• Non-regulated Liberal Professions
The general law like intelectuell property rights or the regulation
about unfair competition apply.
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
Forms of Liberal Professions:
• organised in professional chambers
Certain liberal professional groups are obliged to become member
in the resepective professional chamber.
 Quality assurance
 Abidance by the professional obligations
• Not organised in professional chambers
No membership obligation
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
• Healtcare professions:
doctors, dentiste, veterinaries, alternative practicioners,
physiotherapistes
• Legal, tax and economic advising professions:
lawyers, patentlawyers, notaries, auditors, tax advisors,
Steuerbevollmächtigte, consulting economist and business
administrator, certified public accounant
• Natural scientific and technical professions:
land surveyors, engineer, architects
• Linguistic and information /cultural professions:
Jounalists, press photoreporter, interpreter, translator
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What are Liberal Professions in Germany ?
Structural Challenges in Germany
• Differentiation Liberal Profession and self-employed
• Differentiation Liberal Professions and free-lancing
• Differentiation Liberal Professions and commerce
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Characteristics of Liberal Professions
Definition of Liberal Professions
• Legal definition in German Laws and case law
• BFB-definition of 1995
• ECJ- definition in judgement of 2001, case 267/99-Adam
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Characteristics of Liberal Professions
Liberal Professions…
• take responsability and serve the common welfare
• are part of a free democratic society
• protect trust
• provide highest quality
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Characteristics of Liberal Professions
Liberal Professions…
• are independent
• provide their services in person
• are reliable partners
• are organised in a transparent modern self-government
• invest in formation
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Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany
Impacts:
• assuring a high level of quality of the Liberal Professions’
services.
• enables and ensures an effective quality assurance.
• ensures a high quality level of the continued education of
liberal professionals as well as the formation and advanced
education of the trained employees. The Liberal Professions
are the third biggest trainer in Germany.
• the governmental administration is alleviated from its
burdens on all levels
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Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany
Further pros:
• For years, the quota of female as self-employed
entrepreneurs in Liberal Professions is higher than the
average.
• Professional training courses are also very popular in the
environment of Liberal Professions. Each year, more than
40.000 teenagers start their professional path.
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Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany
Economic impacts:
• More than one million Liberal Professionals work in Germany
as self-employed, tendency rising.
• They employ about three million people in Germany,
tendency rising.
• Ten percent of the German GDP are generated by Liberal
Professionals, tendency rising.
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Potentials of Liberal Professions in Europe
• The Liberal Professions are indispensable to the economic
and the society.
• The Liberal Professions support the citizens in a more and
more complex world of life and work; provide as competent
partner of the commercial economy the stimulation of
innovational and economical dynamic and are indispensable
for the European Single Market.
• Liberal Professions can provide precious contributions for the
boost of entrepreneurship and economic growth in Europe:
they demonstrate quite impressively that social responsibility
and economical dynamic can complement and stimulate one
another.
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Conclusion
The model of Liberal Professions is a way to stimulate
further growth and welfare in Europe!
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