Interpreters - remuneration in criminal and administrative fine proceedings

• Application You will receive the compensation (Vergütung) only upon application (Antrag). You can submit your written application • by post to the Berechnungsstelle (compensation office) of the Amtsgericht Tiergarten (Tiergarten Local Court), • by dropping it in the mailbox of the Berechnungsstelle (old building, room A 236), • at the Geschäftsstelle (registry) or department in whose proceedings you worked as an interpreter. • Payment order The judge certifies your work as an interpreter at the hearing (Termin) and orders payment of the compensation. • Timely billing / application Your claim to compensation generally lapses if it is not asserted within a period of three months with the court or investigating authority that engaged you. The time limit begins • with the end of the hearing (Verhandlungstermin) or examination for which you were called in. • in the case of multiple engagements (e.g. for continuation hearings), with the end of the last hearing. If your engagement ends prematurely, the time limit begins as soon as you have been notified of the premature end.

• Vergütungsantrag und Auszahlungsauftrag (application for remuneration and payment order) www.berlin.de/gerichte/_assets/was-moechten-sie-erledigen/an • After you are released from the appointment (Termin), you will receive the signed "Auszahlungsauftrag" (payment order) (officially: HKR 174), which certifies your attendance. • Please submit the original and one copy of this "Auszahlungsauftrag" (payment order), together with your completed "Antrag auf Dolmetschervergütung" (application for interpreter remuneration) (under "Forms"), quoting the case reference number (Geschäftszeichen) of the proceedings. • Evidence of travel costs or other expenses incurred Please provide evidence of expenses incurred by submitting the corresponding original receipts.

• Auszahlungsauftrag (payment order) (officially: HKR 174) • Antrag auf Dolmetschervergütung (application for interpreter compensation) www.berlin.de/gerichte/_assets/was-moechten-sie-erledigen/an

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• Justizvergütungs- und Entschädigungsgesetz (JVEG) [Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act] www.gesetze-im-internet.de/jveg/BJNR077600004.html • Provisions of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) [Civil Code] on the calculation of time limits www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/BJNR001950896.html#BJNR001950 • Principle of application (Antragsgrundsatz) under the Zivilprozessordnung (ZPO) [Code of Civil Procedure] www.gesetze-im-internet.de/zpo/__308.html • Overnight allowance (Übernachtungsgeld) under the Bundesreisekostengesetz (BRKG) [Federal Travel Expenses Act] www.gesetze-im-internet.de/brkg_2005/BJNR141810005.html

If you worked for the Kammergericht (Berlin Court of Appeal), you will be paid by that court; in all other cases, by the Amtsgericht Tiergarten (Tiergarten Local Court).