(1) The Federal Office of Justice keeps a list of qualified trade associations and publishes that list, as amended, on its website.
(2) An association with legal personality whose statutory tasks include pursuing and promoting commercial or independent professional interests as well as advising and informing on issues around fair competition is included in the list, upon its application, if
1. its membership includes at least 75 entrepreneurs,
2. it has, at the time of making the application, performed its statutory tasks for at least one year,
3. it appears certain, on the basis of its previous activity and its personnel, material and financial resources, that it
a) will in future continue to fulfil its statutory tasks effectively and properly on an sustained basis and
b) its claims are not predominantly asserted in order to generate income for itself from written warning notices or contractual penalties,
4. its members are granted no allowances from the association’s assets and persons who work for the association do not benefit from being paid an inappropriately large amount of remuneration or other allowances.
(3) The provisions relating to qualified consumer associations set out in section 4 (3) and (4) and in sections 4a to 4c and 4f of the Injunctive Relief Act apply accordingly to qualified trade associations. In addition to the qualified trade associations’ reporting obligations under section 4b (1) sentence 1 no. 1 of the Injunctive Relief Act, the number of applications filed for the grant of provisional injunctions and the number of actions filed to enforce such claims as are referred to in this provision are to be reported.