Interest Due on Administrative Fines

Interest shall be payable on fines imposed on legal persons and associations of persons by way of a fining notice; fines shall bear interest from four weeks after service of the fining notice. Section 288(1) sentence 2 and Section 289 sentence 1 of the German Civil Code shall apply mutatis mutandis. The limitation period shall be three years and shall begin from the end of the calendar year in which the fine imposed was fully paid or collected.