Around 300 public prosecutors from all over China gathered in Jishou – Hunan province – at the end of August to attend a week-long training course. The Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme organized part of this course in cooperation with the Theory Research Institute of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (RISPP). On the 21th and 22nd of August 2018, the Chinese public […]
Six high-ranking Public Prosecutors took part in a study trip organized in cooperation with the Legal Policy Research Institute of the People’s Procuratorate (RISPP). From the 1st until the 8th of July, the delegation visited several institutions in Germany and The Netherlands to learn more about the German and Dutch Public Prosecution Service. Under the leadership of Mr. Dan, the […]
From the 20th to 29th of June 2018, a delegation of the Criminal Law department of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People´s Congress visited Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands to learn about international legal cooperation in criminal matters in these three countries. Mr. Wang Aili, Director-General of the Criminal Law Department of the Legislative […]
From the 26th to 30th of March 2018, a five-day training course on judicial methodology in Contract Law was held at the National Judges College in Beijing. 140 Chinese judges mostly from Intermediate and Higher Courts throughout China participated. The course was taught by Mrs. Heike Hummelmeier, presiding judge at the Regional Court of Hamburg (Germany). The course introduced the […]
On 11 December 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme and the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People’s Congress held a workshop on the law relating to the circular economy. The Chinese participants included Mr LU Hao, Chair of the Environment Committee, Mr WANG Qingxi, Vice-Chair, Mr PU Changcheng, Committee member, and Mr ZHAI Yong, Head of […]
From 28 November to 6 December 2017, GIZ’s Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme conducted and accompanied a fact-finding tour for a delegation from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on the subjects of family and adoption law. The delegation comprised six officials from the Commission’s Civil Law Department and was led by […]
From 8 to 17 October 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme organised a fact-finding tour for a delegation from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on the subjects of the constitutional review of legal norms and civil service law. The delegation visited Berlin, Nuremberg and Paris. It comprised twelve officials from […]
From 19 to 26 September 2017, GIZ ran the annual budget management training course for a delegation from the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. This year’s topics were financial relations between the Federation and Länder (individual states), output-based budgeting and property taxation. The course was held in the state of Hesse, Bonn, Hamburg […]
On 3 September 2017, a two-week training course in German administrative law, organised by the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme, began in Berlin for 15 delegates from the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. The delegation was led by Deputy Division Director Mr Tian Xin. The training course was hosted by the German Federal […]
From 15 to 22 July 2017 the 6th Sino-German exchange for lawyers on the topic of criminal procedural law took place in the city of Chifeng in Inner Mongolia. Six Chinese and six German experts on criminal procedural law discussed in moderated workshops the current criminal law issues, in particular procedural tactics, the deal and the psychologist`s role in a criminal […]
From 26 to 30 June 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme and the Department of Treaty and Law at the Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) held the annual training course on commercial law. The course was attended by 50 officials representing all of the Ministry’s departments. Upon completion, the participants were able to pass on what they had learned to their […]
From 7 to 13 June 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme conducted a fact-finding tour for a delegation from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on the subject of employment law. The delegation visited Hamburg, Berlin, Bern and Zurich. It was led by Mr Zhang Yong, Vice-Chairperson of the Legislative Affairs […]
The 5th Sino-German exchange for lawyers on the topic of criminal procedural law took place from May 28th, to June 3rd, 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany. Six German and six Chinese criminal law experts participated and exchanged their views on the similarities and differences of both criminal procedure systems in expert discussions. In moderated workshops the participants discussed in depth new […]
From May 9th – 18th 2017 a delegation of twelve Chinese judges visited North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to representatives from the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China the delegation included representatives of the Higher and Intermediate People’s Courts of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Province Gansu and the national Central City Tianjin. At the beginning of […]
From 27th to 31st March 2017 a five-day training course on the methodology of the application of law in administrative law was held at the National Judges College in Beijing. 150 Chinese administrative judges mostly from Intermediate and Higher Courts participated. The course was taught by Dr. Matthias Keller, presiding judge at the Administrative Court of Aachen (Germany).The course introduced […]
From December 11th to 17th 2016, six German lawyers participated in the fourth Sino-German exchange for lawyers in Kunming. The professional focus was on intellectual property law. By giving lectures and having discussions, the participants worked out the similarities and differences of both legal systems. The focus was particularly on patent and trademark law, competition law and procedural aspects of […]
From July 18th – 26th 2016 a delegation of ten judges from the provinces Henan, Hebei and Jiangsu visited Baden-Württemberg. In addition to representatives from the Supreme People´s Court of the People`s Republic of China and the Higher People´s Court of the province of Henan, the delegation for the first time also included representatives from the Higher People`s Courts of […]
From July 10th to 19th 2016, a delegation of ten judges from Berlin and Brandenburg travelled to the People’s Republic of China as part of the Sino-German judges exchange program. First, they visited Shandong province, which joined the partnership with the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg as an additional partner province in 2016. In Qingdao, the delegation was received […]
Organized by the Sino-German Legal Cooperation programme, from July 5th-8th 2016 a delegation from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (Shanghai AIC) visited Germany to discuss trademark law. At the heart of the trip was the exchange with representatives of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich. Moreover, the delegation also […]
The delegation trip by the National Judges College of the People’s Republic of China from June 27th to July 4th 2016 under the leadership of vice-president Mrs. Feng leading to Berlin and Geneva focused on Internet privacy. The participants exchanged views about current legal developments inter alia with the Berlin data protection officer, consumer protection agencies, scholars of the Free […]
