Thursday November 17 2011
News Source: Global Disclosures
Focus: Major Shareholdings
Type: Correspondence with Regulators
Country: Germany
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority has provided clarification on publications pursuant to section 26a WpHG for Germany major shareholdings:
“Besides publication section 26a WpHG obliges domestic issuers to transmit information regarding a change of the total amount of voting rights to the German company register. The information is stored there and can be retrieved for free via this website: www.unternehmensregister.de. An English language version can be found here: https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/search1.6.html;jsessionid=A87C7B9BEFE0C0AC9C660782488D2C93.www03-1?submitaction=language&language=en. In addition most companies publish this information on their respective internet site.”