(1) Courts, public prosecution offices and administrative authorities may transmit personal data from regulatory fining matters to the competent authorities and courts ex officio if, in the view of the transmitting agency, this is required for
1. the prosecution of criminal offences or of other regulatory offences,
2. decisions in other regulatory fining matters, including decisions relating to the execution of regulatory fining decisions or in pardoning matters, or
3. other decisions or measures in accordance with section 477 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure;
The same applies to the authorities of the police service insofar as this is permitted by corresponding application of section 480 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Sections 478, 479 subsections (1), (2) and (4) sentence 1, as well as subsection (5), and section 480 subsections (1) and (2), of the Code of Criminal Procedure apply accordingly.
(2) Transmission is also admissible if there are special circumstances in an individual case requiring transmission for the purposes referred to in section 14 (1) numbers 4 to 9 of the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act in conjunction with corresponding application of subsection (2) sentences 2 and 4 of that provision.
(3) There is no transmission in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) insofar as it is apparent to the transmitting agency that the person concerned has overriding interests that are worthy of protection in excluding transmission.
(4) The following additional provisions apply accordingly to transmission by administrative authorities:
1. sections 12, 13, 16, 17 numbers 2 to 5 and 18 to 21 of the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act, and
2. section 22 of the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act, provided that the procedure in accordance with section 62 (1) sentence 1 and subsection (2) takes the place of the procedure in accordance with sections 23 to 30 of that Act, and that the court referred to in section 68 takes the place of the court referred to in section 25 of the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act.
In addition, the authority with jurisdiction over the regulatory fining proceedings may transmit the decision concluding such proceedings to the administrative authority that initiated the regulatory fining proceedings or otherwise participated in such proceedings, if in the view of the transmitting agency such transmission is necessary for the purpose of exercising a function within the responsibility of the recipient and relating to the subject-matter of the proceedings; where the decision has dismissed an appellate remedy, the contested decision may also be transmitted. The Federal Ministry responsible for regulatory fining provisions under Federal law may, in this respect, and with the consent of the Federal Council, issue general administrative regulations within the meaning of section 12 (5) of the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act.
(5) Furthermore, section 481 of the Code of Criminal Procedure applies accordingly. Transmission in accordance with sections 481 (1) sentence 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is dispensed with subject to subsection (3). Only subsection (1) of section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure applies accordingly, whereby the additional transmission of the file reference to another administrative authority which has given rise to the regulatory fining proceedings or otherwise participated in the proceedings is effected.