Standards; authorisations to issue ordinances

(1) For the information-technology systems used for cross-cutting information-technology access to the administrative services of the Federation and the Länder, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community shall, in agreement with the IT Planning Council and by the end of the second calendar year following the promulgation of the Act of 19 July 2024 (Federal Law Gazette 2024 I No. 245), lay down by statutory ordinance not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat the necessary 1. architectural requirements, 2. quality requirements, and 3. interoperability standards, including the process models, data formats, transport protocols and interface descriptions for connecting online procedures and specialist procedures, as well as the interfaces necessary for connecting basic services.
(2) For the handling of administrative procedures that serve to implement directly applicable legal acts of the European Union for which the Federation has legislative competence, or to implement federal statutes, the federal ministry responsible for the relevant legal act or federal statute shall, in agreement with the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community and the IT Planning Council, lay down by statutory ordinance not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat the requirements referred to in subsection (1).
(3) Compliance with the requirements laid down by statutory ordinance under subsections (1) and (2) is mandatory for all bodies whose administrative services are offered via the portal network. The rules laid down by statutory ordinance under subsections (1) and (2) may not be derogated from by Land law. Section 4(2) applies accordingly.
(4) The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, or the body it commissions, shall publish, in structured electronic form at a central location, the standards applied by the Federation and the Länder within the scope of this Act. Specifications and documentation, in their respective current version, should be published for the interfaces of IT components. The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community may, by statutory ordinance requiring the consent of the Bundesrat, transfer the task under sentence 1 1. to a Land, with that Land's agreement, or 2. to another body under public-law sponsorship.