Law on the re-ordering of statistics on accommodation in travel (accommodation statistics act-BeherbStatG)

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Date of completion: 22.05.2002

Full quote:

" Lodging Statistics Act of 22 May 2002 (BGBl. I p. 1642), most recently by Article 1 of the Law of 23 November 2011 (BGBl. I p. 2298)

Status:

Last amended by Art. 1 G v. 23.11.2011 I 2298

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Footnote

(+ + + Text evidence from: 1.1.2003 + + +) 

  

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§ 1 Order, Purpose

In the case of tourist accommodation (temporary accommodation), statistical surveys are carried out at accommodation establishments as federal statistics. Unofficial table of contents

§ 2 Periodicity, reporting period

(1) The surveys shall be carried out on a monthly basis, beginning with the reporting month of January 2012. The number of guest rooms pursuant to § 4 (4) is to be collected annually only. (2) The reporting period for the monthly survey is the calendar month preceding the date of the survey. The effective date for the annual survey is 31 July. Unofficial table of contents

§ 3 Survey area

(1) Accommodation facilities within the meaning of § 1 are establishments and operating parts which, after establishment and purpose, serve to accommodate at least ten guests at the same time temporarily. There must be at least 10 pitches at campsites. (2) The surveys shall cover:

1.

the following groups in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Regulation (EEC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 laying down the statistical classification of economic activities in the 3037/90 of the Council and certain EC Regulations on certain statistical domains (OJ No L 302, 15.2.1990, p. 1), as amended, shall:

a)

55.1 Hotels, inns and guesthouses,

b)

55.2 Ferienunterkünfte and similar accommodation facilities,

c)

55.3 campsites;

2.

Training homes;

3.

Preventive and rehabilitation clinics.

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§ 4 Survey characteristics

The main features of the survey are:

1.

Number of arrivals and nights spent by guests; in the case of guests whose residence or habitual residence is outside Germany, this information shall also be recorded in the subdivision by country of origin,

2.

Number of guest beds or campsites in the pitches,

3.

the date of temporary closure and re-opening and the trade-off,

4.

in hotels, inns, guesthouses and hotels garnis in addition number of guest rooms,

5.

in the case of the accommodation establishments with 25 or more guest rooms referred to in point 4 above, the number of occupied and offered room days; for the latter, the occupancy of the occupancy as a percentage.

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§ 5 auxiliary characteristics

The auxiliary characteristics are:

1.

the name and address of the accommodation establishment,

2.

Name, telephone numbers and addresses for electronic mail of the persons available for inquiries.

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§ 6 Information to be provided

(1) There is a duty to provide information for the surveys. The holder, the owner, the manager or the head of the accommodation establishment shall be subject to information. The information provided in accordance with § 5 no. 2 is voluntary. (2) The obligation to provide information for the first time extends also to expired reporting periods of the calendar year. (3) For companies whose owners are entrepreneurs in the sense of § 7g (7) (2) and (3) of the Income Tax Act, as amended by the notice of 19. October 2002 (BGBl. 4210, 2003 I p. 179), notwithstanding the first sentence of the first sentence of paragraph 1 and 2, the calendar year of the opening of the operating system shall not be subject to the obligation to provide information. In the following two calendar years, there is no obligation to provide information if the company has generated revenues of less than € 500,000 in the last financial year. Unofficial table of contents

§ 7 Delivery arrangements

The Federal Statistical Office and the Statistical Offices of the Federal Statistical Office may apply to the highest federal and state authorities for use in relation to the legislative bodies and for the purposes of planning, but not for the regulation of individual cases. Countries tables with statistical results are transmitted, even if the table fields have only one case. Unofficial table of contents

Section 8 Regulation authorisation

The Federal Government is authorized, by means of a regulation with the consent of the Federal Council

1.

to suspend the collection of individual survey characteristics, to prolong the periodicities and to reduce the breakdown of survey characteristics and the circle of persons to be surveyer;

2.

to introduce individual new survey characteristics where this is necessary for the purpose of this law and is not personal data; introduces survey characteristics not intended to fulfil reporting obligations under the law of the Whereas, by the simultaneous suspension of the collection of other survey characteristics, it is necessary to avoid an extension of the scope of the survey;

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§ 9 Entry into force, external force

This Act shall enter into force on 1 January 2003. At the same time, the Accommodation Statistics Act of 14 July 1980 (BGBl. 953), as last amended by Article 5 (6) of the Law of 19 December 2000 (BGBl I). 1765), except for force.