ABSTRACT
The responsibility of legal persons and associations of persons (Verbände / ‘corporations’ /‘personnes morales’) is regulated by the law for violations of good order, i.e. regulatory offences (OWiG) in Germany. The development of fines against legal persons and associations of persons originates in the legal practice of the 1920s. At that time there were specific provisions in different laws. The fines for which legal persons and associations of persons are liable under the OWiG (Ver bandsgeldbuße) were finally normalised in § 30 OWiG, thus standardising the highly different provisions for fines against legal persons and associations of persons scattered in numerous laws.
