Here you will find the legal texts and further operational agreements, on the basis of which the International Tracing Service is legitimised and works.

Further information on the origin and history of the ITS can be taken from the rubrics

» About ITS.

Here you can download the legal texts published (partly in English, French and German) in the Gazette and the Law Gazette of the Federal Republic of Germany as pdf files:

• Federal Law Gazette no. 31 of 17th October 2012 (in EN - FR - GE)
  » Download ITS agreement (Pdf file)
  
  
• Partnership Agreement between the German Federal Archives and the ITS (in German)
  » Download agreement (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Gazette of 14th December 1955 (in EN - FR - GE)
  » Download BA 1955 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Gazette of 20th December 1961 (in EN - FR - GE)
  » Download BA 1961 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Law Gazette no. 58 of 31st October 1973 (in German) 
  » Download BGBL 58-1973 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Law Gazette no. 62 of 28th November 1973 (in German) 
  » Download BGBL 62-1973 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Law Gazette no. 49 of 19th October 1994 (in EN - FR - GE) 
  » Download BGBL 49-1994 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Federal Law Gazette no. 41 of 1st October 1998 (in German)
  » Download BGBL 41-1998 (Pdf file)
  
  
• Amendment of the Bonn Agreements of 16th May 2006
  (Federal Law Gazette no. 11 of 18th April 2007 (in EN - DE - FR)
  » Download BGBL 11-2007 (Pdf file)

• Procedural Rules for the International Commission / ITS May 2000
  » Download Procedural Rules (Pdf file)