(1) The Land governments are authorised to determine by statutory instrument the details of the electronic maintenance of the company register, the electronic registration, the electronic submission of documents as well as their retention, unless the corresponding provisions are enacted by the Federal Ministry of Justice and for Consumer Protection under section 387 (2) of the Act on Proceedings in Family Matters and in Matters of Non-contentious Jurisdiction (Gesetz über das Verfahren in Familiensachen und in den Angelegenheiten der freiwilligen Gerichtsbarkeit). In adopting such provisions, they may also make more detailed provisions for the transmission of data and determine the form of electronic documents to be transmitted to ensure their suitability for handling by the court. The Land governments may confer this authority by statutory instrument upon the Land departments of justice.
(2) The Land departments of justice determine the electronic information and communications systems via which data from the company registers are retrievable, and they are responsible for operating the electronic retrieval procedure. The Land government may, by statutory instrument, redistribute these responsibilities; it may, by statutory instrument, confer such authority upon the Land department of justice. The Länder may determine a nationwide, centralised electronic information and communications system. They may also agree to have the operational tasks transferred to the competent body of another Land, as well as agree with the operator of the business register to have the operational tasks transferred to the business register.