Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany

1. 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

2. Outline • Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany? • Characteristicsof Liberal Professions • Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany • Potential of Liberal Professions in Europe RAin Nadine Dauer

3. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? Varietyof Liberal Professional groups: • Liberal healthcareprofessions • Liberal legal, economicandtaxadvisingprofessions • Liberal culturalprofessions • Liberal technicalandnaturalscienctificprofessions RAin Nadine Dauer

4. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? Economicallyactive in Liberal Professional are: • 125.000 in vocationaltraining (apprenticeships) • 238.000 co-workingfamilymembers (excludedofsocialsecuritycontribution) • 1.192.000 self-employed • 2.784.000 socialsecuritycontributionobligedemployed RAin Nadine Dauer

5. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? Forms of Liberal Professions: • Regulated Liberal Professions The legal regulationofthe professional lawsapply. • Non-regulated Liberal Professions The generallawlikeintelectuellpropertyrightsortheregulationabout unfair competitionapply. RAin Nadine Dauer

6. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? Forms of Liberal Professions: • organised in professional chambers Certain liberal professional groupsareobligedtobecomemember in theresepective professional chamber. • Quality assurance • Abidancebythe professional obligations • Not organised in professional chambers Nomembershipobligation RAin Nadine Dauer

7. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? • Healtcareprofessions: doctors, dentiste, veterinaries, alternative practicioners, physiotherapistes • Legal, taxandeconomicadvisingprofessions: lawyers, patentlawyers, notaries, auditors, taxadvisors, Steuerbevollmächtigte, consultingeconomistandbusinessadministrator, certifiedpublicaccounant • Natural scientificandtechnicalprofessions: landsurveyors, engineer, architects • Linguisticandinformation/culturalprofessions: Jounalists, press photoreporter, interpreter, translator RAin Nadine Dauer

8. Whatare Liberal Professions in Germany ? StructuralChallenges in Germany • Differentiation Liberal Profession andself-employed • Differentiation Liberal Professions and free-lancing • Differentiation Liberal Professionsandcommerce RAin Nadine Dauer

9. Characteristicsof Liberal Professions Definition of Liberal Professions • Legal definition in German Laws andcaselaw • BFB-definition of 1995 • ECJ- definition in judgementof 2001, case 267/99-Adam RAin Nadine Dauer

10. Characteristicsof Liberal Professions Liberal Professions… • takeresponsabilityandservethecommonwelfare • arepartof a freedemocraticsociety • protecttrust • providehighestquality RAin Nadine Dauer

11. Characteristicsof Liberal Professions Liberal Professions… • areindependent • providetheirservices in person • arereliablepartners • areorganised in a transparent modern self-government • invest in formation RAin Nadine Dauer

12. 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 RAin Nadine Dauer

13. Impact of Liberal Professions in Germany Further pros: • For years, the quota of female as self-employed entrepreneursin 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. RAin Nadine Dauer

14. 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. RAin Nadine Dauer

15. 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. RAin Nadine Dauer

16. Conclusion The model of Liberal Professions is a way to stimulate further growth and welfare in Europe! RAin Nadine Dauer