Everything over passenger traffic in Germany
Legals form or company forms in the passenger traffic
Legals form or company forms in the verkehrsgewerbe
© Uwe Losse last updating 2006-10-21
National special estates as legal form or company form
Public utilities as legal form or company form
Own establishments as legal form or company form
Cooperative as legal form or company form
GmbH as legal form or company form
Kg as legal form or company form
AG as legal form or company form
GbR as legal form or company form
The German setting (here in particular the HGB) place a set of legals form to the enterprises or company forms for the order. Everyone Enterprise has the free choice, for which legal form it decides. The enterprises (transporting enterprises) can change the legal form or company form at any time, this are however connected with costs and legal expenditure.
The transporting enterprises in the ÖPNV, SPNV or generally in the Verkehrsgewerbe have beside the well-known Legals form or company forms, like e.g. GmbH or AG further relatively unknown legals form. This is appropriate for that in the fact justified, straight Suburban traffic frequently by transporting enterprises in public hand to be accomplished. Even if the traffic market in this regard at present in the change is and ever more transporting enterprises the legal form or In particular that changes, is company form Local passenger traffic strongly of national places led.
The legal form or company form that Transporting enterprises gives fast information, over the necessary decision ways of the transporting enterprises.
Up to 31.12.1993 the Federal Railroads and those belonged National Railroad of the Federal Republic of Germany, thus the state. The railways became in the time as national special estate of the federation in the household that Federal Government led. The railways did not have own legal capacity in the time.
This by the transfer of the Federal Railroads and National Railroad to the corporation clearly, for this had the German Bundestag a law to issue. A change of the legal form or the company form or own decisions concerning this were not possible for the railways. All large decisions could be made only by law in the Bundestag.
Public utilities are very similar to the special estate. Examples for this is the inland port in Duisburg. Here the inland ports are adjusted in the Länderhaushalten and are nationally led. This meant again is enough and from the respective politicians dependent Decision ways.
Own establishments are likewise national legals form or company forms. Own establishments are subject to the respective federal state law. Own establishments e.g. belong.
Districts or cities. That means that those Transporting enterprises as own establishment to be led, likewise the budgetary law be subject.
For the legals form or company forms of the own establishments, in addition, for public utilities there are legal differences in Tax law decision ways.
Cooperatives are subject to the Genossenschaftsgesetz. This legal form or company form is in Verkehrsgewerbe relatively rarely and are rather in To find goods traffic as Partikuliervereinigung (inland waterway craft) or in the road haulage.
The GmbH is subject to that GmbH - law and is a frequently represented legal form or company form. Regionalbusbgesellschaften, NE - courses, airports or seas port and many private bus enterprises are led in this legal form or company form.
In passed the years became besides many Own establishments in the legal form or company form of the GmbH transfers.
The limited partnership is defined in the commercial code and a rather rare legal form or company form in the passenger traffic. One finds it isolated with small bus enterprises.
The document company (AG) is subject to the law on limited companies and is with larger transporting enterprises a frequently represented legal form or company form. Examples for this are the course AG, in addition, airports (e.g. Fraport), larger public suburban traffic enterprises, inland ports or Air transport companies.
The society of bürgelichen right (GbR) is led according to the regulations of the civil law book. This legal form or company form hardly finds use in the passenger traffic and is rather To find shipping agents. In addition, small Bus entrepreneurs select this legal form or Company form.
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