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The register of foundations includes all foundations with legal capacity under civil and public law, with the exception of ecclesiastical foundations, which have their registered office in Bavaria. This directory is kept by the Bavarian State Statistical Office on the basis of information provided by the governments as foundation authorities.
The foundation must notify the responsible government immediately of any changes to the address of the foundation administration.
Information on the foundation directory can be found under "Related topics" under "Foundation directory; inspection".
The address of the foundation administration has changed.
The change of address of the foundation administration must be notified to the responsible government.
This government forwards the changes to the address of the foundation administration notified to it to the Bavarian State Office for Statistics so that it can publish the current address.
Costs are incurred for certain supervisory measures that only apply in exceptional cases, depending on the administrative effort involved and the importance of the matter. Otherwise, the activities of the foundation supervisory authority are free of charge for foundations that primarily pursue public purposes.
In the case of municipal foundations, the legal supervisory authority responsible for the respective municipality is responsible for certain foundation supervision tasks if the foundation is administered by the municipality.
Foundations under public law require approval for individual legal transactions.
If you wish to amend or supplement individual provisions of the articles of association of a foundation with legal capacity, you can do so under certain conditions with the approval of the responsible foundation authority, provided that the founder's wishes are observed.
For their protection, foundations that pursue public purposes, with the exception of state-administered foundations, are subject to the legal supervision of the state (foundation supervision). The foundation authorities are the governments.
Foundations with legal capacity that pursue public purposes and are therefore subject to government supervision are obliged to notify the foundation authority of the composition of the foundation's bodies and any changes without delay.
The foundation directory contains all foundations with legal capacity based in Bavaria and the most important data for each foundation. Anyone can view it without giving reasons.