You have the option of submitting your report via our reporting office. You decide whether and which of your contact details you provide and whether you wish to receive feedback. If you wish to receive feedback and provide your contact details, you will receive confirmation of receipt of your report within 7 days via the communication channel you have specified. You will also receive information within 3 months on how your report has been handled, including any measures taken.

Your report will be sent directly to our external ombudsman (datenschutz nord GmbH, Dominik Bleckmann, fully qualified lawyer), who will treat it confidentially and, after an initial review, forward it to our internal office for further action.

You can submit your reports by:

• In person after making an appointment,
• by sending a written report by post,
• by telephone
• electronically by e-mail

Datenschutz nord GmbH, Konsul-Smidt-Str. 88, 28217 Bremen

Telephone: +49 421 6966 32 349
E-mail address: compliance@dsn-group.de

You have the option of submitting reports on legal violations or abusive behavior, particularly in the following areas:

• violations punishable by law
• violations of standards for the protection of life, limb and health, or employees and their representative bodies, subject to fines
• Public procurement
• Financial services, financial products and financial markets as well as the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing,
• Product safety and conformity
• Traffic safety
• Environmental protection
• Food safety
• Animal health and public health
• Consumer protection
• protection of privacy and personal data and security of network and information systems
• infringements of the Union’s financial interests within the meaning of Article 325 TFEU and as further defined in relevant Union measures
• infringements of internal market rules within the meaning of Article 26(2) TFEU, including infringements of Union rules on competition and State aid, and – infringements of internal market rules in relation to acts in breach of corporate tax rules or in relation to agreements aimed at obtaining a tax advantage contrary to the object or purpose of the applicable corporate tax law.
• This list is not exhaustive. You can also provide information on violations in other areas. The exact scope of application, which is listed below, can be found in Section 2 GeschGehG.

Scope of application of the Notification Office pursuant to § 2 HinSchG

The Reporting Office is responsible for receiving reports on the following areas:

• Violations that are punishable by law,
• Violations that are subject to fines, insofar as the violated regulation serves to protect life, limb or health or to protect the rights of employees or their representative bodies,
• other violations of federal and state legislation as well as directly applicable legal acts of the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
• to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, including in particular the Money Laundering Act and Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on information accompanying transfers of funds and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1781/2006 (OJ L 141, 5.6.2015, p. 1), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/2175 (OJ L 334, 27.12.2019, p. 1), as amended,
• with requirements for product safety and conformity,
• laying down rules on road safety concerning road infrastructure safety management, safety requirements in road tunnels and admission to the occupation of road haulage operator or road passenger transport operator (bus and/or coach undertaking)
• with specifications for ensuring railroad operational safety,
• with provisions on maritime safety concerning European Union regulations for the recognition of ship inspection and survey organizations, the liability and insurance of the carrier when transporting passengers by sea, the approval of ship equipment, maritime safety inspections, seafarer training, the registration of persons on passenger ships in maritime transport and European Union regulations and procedures for the safe loading and unloading of bulk carriers,
• with requirements for civil aviation safety in terms of the prevention of risks to operational and technical safety and in terms of air traffic control,
• with requirements for the safe transportation of dangerous goods by road, rail and inland waterway,
• with specifications for environmental protection,
• with regulations on radiation protection and nuclear safety,
• promoting the use of energy from renewable sources and energy efficiency,
• on food and feed safety, on organic production and labelling of organic products, on the protection of geographical indications for agricultural products and foodstuffs including wine, aromatized wine products and spirits and traditional specialities guaranteed, on the placing on the market and use of plant protection products and on animal health and welfare as regards the protection of farmed animals, the protection of animals at the time of killing, the keeping of wild animals in zoos, the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and the transport of animals and related operations,
• on quality and safety standards for organs and substances of human origin, medicinal products for human and veterinary use, medical devices and cross-border patient care,
• on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products,
• to regulate consumer rights and consumer protection in connection with contracts between traders and consumers and to protect consumers in the area of payment accounts and financial services, price indications and unfair commercial practices,
• to protect privacy in electronic communications, to protect the confidentiality of communications, to protect personal data in the electronic communications sector, to protect the privacy of users’ terminal equipment and of information stored in such terminal equipment, to protect against unreasonable harassment by means of advertising via telephone calls, automatic calling machines, fax machines or electronic mail, as well as via caller identification and suppression and for inclusion in directories of subscribers,
• on the protection of personal data within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1; L 314, 22.11.2016, p. 72; L 127, 23.5.2018, p. 2; L 74, 4.3.2021, p. 35) in accordance with Article 2 thereof,
• on security in information technology within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the BSI Act by providers of digital services within the meaning of Article 2(12) of the BSI Act
• on the regulation of the rights of shareholders of public limited companies,
• to audit the financial statements of public interest entities in accordance with Section 316a sentence 2 of the German Commercial Code,
• on accounting, including the bookkeeping of companies that are capital market-oriented within the meaning of Section 264d of the German Commercial Code, credit institutions within the meaning of Section 340 (1) of the German Commercial Code, financial services institutions within the meaning of Section 340 (4) sentence 1 of the German Commercial Code, securities institutions within the meaning of Section 340 (4a) sentence 1 of the German Commercial Code, institutions within the meaning of Section 340 (5) sentence 1 of the German Commercial Code, insurance companies within the meaning of Section 341 (1) of the German Commercial Code and pension funds within the meaning of Section 341 (4) sentence 1 of the German Commercial Code,
• breaches of federal and uniformly applicable regulations for contracting authorities on the procedure for awarding public contracts and concessions and on legal protection in these procedures once the relevant EU thresholds have been reached,
• infringements covered by Section 4d (1) sentence 1 of the Financial Services Supervision Act, unless otherwise stated in Section 4 (1) sentence 1,
• breaches of tax law applicable to corporations and commercial partnerships,
• violations in the form of agreements aimed at improperly obtaining a tax advantage that runs counter to the objective or purpose of the tax law applicable to corporations and commercial partnerships,
• infringements of Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and infringements of the legal provisions referred to in Section 81 (2) (1), (2) (a) and (5) and (3) of the Act against Restraints of Competition,
• infringements of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 14, 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Digital Markets Act) (OJ L 265, 12.10.2022, p. 1),
• Statements by civil servants that constitute a breach of the duty to comply with the Constitution
• breaches of the protection of the European Union’s financial interests within the meaning of Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and
• breaches of internal market rules within the meaning of Article 26(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, including European Union rules on competition and state aid that go beyond paragraph 1(8).