eGovernment Factsheet - Germany - eServices for Businesses

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Posting Date

20 January 2007

Last Edited Date

21 December 2011

Country

Germany

Availability and sophistication of eServices for Businesses

Last updated: October 2011

The information in this section is based on the common list of 20 basic public services contained in the annual report 'Digitising Public Services in Europe: Putting ambition into action – 9th Benchmark Measurement' prepared for the European Commission, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, December 2010.

The 8 services for businesses are as follows:

1. Social contributions for employees
Responsibility:	Central Government (Federal), Federal Insurance Institution for Employees - BFA
Website:	http://www.bfa.de/
Description:	Information, forms to download and eServices using digital certificates.

2. Corporate tax: declaration, notification
Responsibility:	Central (Federal) / Regional (State) Government
Website:	https://www.elster.de/index.php
Description:	ELSTER enables online transmission of corporate tax returns and tax notifications.

3. VAT: declaration, notification
Responsibility:	Central (Federal) / Regional (State) Government
Website:	https://www.elster.de/index.php
Description:	ELSTER enables online transmission of VAT returns.

4. Registration of a new company
Responsibility:	Regional Government
Website:	http://www.handelsregister.de/
Description:	Information only. Company registration services are handled by local courts.

5. Submission of data to statistical offices
Responsibility:	Central Government (Federal), Federal Statistical Office
Website:	http://w3stat.destatis.de/
Description:	Launched in early 2000, the W3Stat system allows businesses to pass on regular information to the Federal Statistics Office via the Internet.

6. Customs declarations
Responsibility:	Central Government (Federal), Federal Customs Administration
Website:	http://www.zoll-d.de/
Description:	Information, forms and eServices for customs' operations. An Online Customs Declaration service was launched in 2002, based on the ATLAS system for electronic application, processing, settlement and archiving of essential custom processes.

7. Environment-related permits (incl. reporting)
Responsibility:	Central Government (Federal), Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety, and Federal Environmental Agency
Website:	http://www.bmu.de/; http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
Description:	Case handling, decision and delivery of a standard procedure to obtain an environment-related permit can be treated via eServices.

8. Public procurement
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of the Interior, Federal Procurement Office
Website:	http://www.evergabe-online.de/; http://www.kdb.bund.de/
Description:	The Federal Government's eProcurement platform, launched in May 2002, enables authorities to publish and notify call for tenders electronically, and bidders to submit offers completely and bindingly over the Internet. This system is the result of the Public Procurement Online (Öffentlicher Eink@uf Online) Programme. This special part of the programme was realised by implementing a Federal eGovernment Shop (Kaufhaus des Bundes – KdB). It is an internal system, but public information is available at: www.kdb.bund.de.

Further information on the services and on the latest official online sophistication ratings is available in the 'Digitising Public Services in Europe: Putting ambition into action – 9th Benchmark Measurement' report, prepared for the European Commission, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, December 2010.

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