Competent Supervisory Authority

The supervisory authority competent for the implementation of this Act is:
1. the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority for
a) credit institutions, with the exception of the Deutsche Bundesbank,
b) financial services institutions and payment institutions under section 1(1), first sentence, no. 1 of the Payment Services Supervision Act, e-money institutions under section 1(2), first sentence, no. 1 of the Payment Services Supervision Act, securities institutions under section 2(1) of the Securities Institutions Act, crypto-asset service providers and issuers of asset-referenced tokens,
c) domestic branches of credit institutions with their registered office abroad, of financial services institutions with their registered office abroad, of payment institutions with their registered office abroad, and of securities institutions with their registered office abroad,
d) capital management companies under section 17(1) of the Capital Investment Code,
e) domestic branches of EU management companies under section 1(17) of the Capital Investment Code and of foreign AIF management companies under section 1(18) of the Capital Investment Code,
f) foreign AIF management companies for which the Federal Republic of Germany is the reference Member State and that are subject to the supervision of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority under section 57(1), third sentence of the Capital Investment Code,
g) payment institutions and e-money institutions with their registered office in another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, agents and e-money agents under section 2(1), no. 4,
h) undertakings and persons under section 2(1), no. 5, and
i) the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau;
2. for insurance undertakings under section 2(1), no. 7, the supervisory authority respectively competent for insurance matters;
3. for lawyers and registered legal advisers admitted to a bar under section 2(1), no. 10, the respective locally competent bar association (sections 60, 163, fourth sentence of the Federal Lawyers' Act);
4. for patent attorneys under section 2(1), no. 10, the Patent Attorneys' Chamber (section 53 of the Patent Attorneys' Act);
5. for notaries under section 2(1), no. 10,
a) the president of the regional court in whose district the notary has his or her office (section 92(1), no. 1 of the Federal Code for Notaries),
b) in the case under section 92(3) of the Federal Code for Notaries, the president of the regional court to which competence has been assigned; 5a. for obliged entities under section 2(1), no. 11, the Federal Office of Justice;
6. for public accountants and sworn auditors under section 2(1), no. 12, the Chamber of Public Accountants (section 57(2), no. 17 of the Public Accountants Act);
7. for tax advisers and tax agents under section 2(1), no. 12, the respective locally competent chamber of tax advisers (section 76 of the Tax Consultancy Act); 7a. for wage tax assistance associations, the authority competent for supervision under section 27 of the Tax Consultancy Act;
8. for organisers and intermediaries of gambling under section 2(1), no. 15, insofar as Land law does not provide otherwise, the authority competent for gambling-law supervision; and
9. in all other cases, the body respectively competent under Federal or Land law.