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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




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




Forms of Liberal Professions:

•Regulated Liberal Professions The legal regulation of the professional laws apply.

•Non-regulated Liberal ProfessionsThe general law like intelectuell property rights or the regulation about unfair competition apply.




Forms of Liberal Professions:•organised in professional chambers

Certain liberal professional groups are obliged to become member in the resepective professional chamber. Quality assuranceAbidance by the professional obligations

•Not organised in professional chambersNo membership obligation




•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




Structural Challenges in Germany

•Differentiation Liberal Profession and self-employed

•Differentiation Liberal Professions and free-lancing

•Differentiation Liberal Professions and commerce



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




Liberal Professions…

•take responsability and serve the common welfare

•are part of a free democratic society

•protect trust

•provide highest quality




Liberal Professions…

•are independent

•provide their services in person

•are reliable partners

•are organised in a transparent modern self-government

•invest in formation




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




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.




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.



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.



Conclusion

The model of Liberal Professions is a way to stimulate further growth and welfare in Europe!



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