(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
a) The term “Israel” means the State of Israel and when used in
a geographical sense includes its territorial sea, as well as
those maritime areas adjacent to the outer limit of the terri-
torial sea, including seabed and subsoil thereof over which
the State of Israel, in accordance with international law and
the laws of the State of Israel, exercises its sovereign rights
or jurisdiction;
b) the term “Germany” means the Federal Republic of Germany
and when used in a geographical sense, includes the territory
of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the area of
the sea-bed, its subsoil and the superjacent water column
adjacent to the territorial sea, wherein the Federal Republic
of Germany exercises sovereign rights or jurisdiction in con-
formity with international law and its national legislation for
the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and manag-
ing the living and non-living natural resources or for the pro-
duction of energy from renewable sources;
c) the terms “a Contracting State” and “the other Contracting
State” mean Germany or Israel as the context requires;
d) the term “person” includes an individual, a company, a trust
and any other body of persons;
e) the term “company” means any body corporate or any entity
that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
f)
the term “enterprise” applies to the carrying on of any busi-
ness;
g) the term “business” includes the performance of professional
services and of other activities of an independent character;
h) the terms “enterprise of a Contracting State” and “enterprise
of the other Contracting State” mean respectively an enter-
prise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State or an
enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting
State;
the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship
i)
or aircraft operated by an enterprise that has its place of
effective management in a Contracting State, except when
the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the
other Contracting State;
the term “national” means:
j)
aa) in respect of Germany
any German within the meaning of the Basic Law for the
Federal Republic of Germany and any legal person, part-
nership and association deriving its status as such from
the laws in force in the Federal Republic of Germany;
bb) in respect of Israel
any individual possessing the nationality of Israel and
any legal person, partnership and association deriving
its status as such from the laws in force in Israel;
k) the term “competent authority” means
aa) in the case of Germany the Federal Ministry of Finance
or the agency to which it has delegated its powers;
bb) in the case of Israel the Minister of Finance or his autho-
rised representative.
(2) As regards the application of the Agreement at any time
by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless
the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has
at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the
taxes to which the Agreement applies, any meaning under the
applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given
to the term under other laws of that State.
de-israel-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | signed 2014-08-21 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2014-08-21 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26
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official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
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This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Hebrew as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. Missing here does not mean globally unavailable. Unreviewed coordinate-based machine transcription of this original source edition only. Printed line breaks, hyphens and uncertain token spacing are retained, not silently corrected. Treaty preamble, closing formula, protocol and shared signatures are separate retained assets, not part of the last article. Full supplements: /review/de-israel-2015-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
Review status
Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
Currentness
Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 2014-08-21; consent law 2015-11-20; gazette publication 2015-11-26. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: not resolved as a single source-bound field by the retained audit. Roster general application: 2017-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 21. August 1966, 24. September 1979, 9. Mai 2016. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.
Protocols and later instruments
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Israel R-P P: 24.05.2019 KR KR. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. Source-triage warnings: Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.
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BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | de-israel-2015-base | de-israel-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | signed 2014-08-21 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2014-08-21 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26 | Article 3 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-israel-2015-base/en/articles/article-3/
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Source edition
de-israel-2015-base | BGBl. 2015 II S. 1301 | signed 2014-08-21 | published 2015-11-26 | Signed: 2014-08-21 | Gazette publication: 2015-11-26
Source form
official-publication PDF with native text layer; reader is a machine transcription
Source scope
original implementing law, bilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
This source supplies German and English versions. The signing clause also identifies Hebrew as authentic; that third version is NOT present in this reader. Missing here does not mean globally unavailable. Unreviewed coordinate-based machine transcription of this original source edition only. Printed line breaks, hyphens and uncertain token spacing are retained, not silently corrected. Treaty preamble, closing formula, protocol and shared signatures are separate retained assets, not part of the last article. Full supplements: /review/de-israel-2015-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence.
Review status
Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed.
Currentness
Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Unknown as current law. Signed 2014-08-21; consent law 2015-11-20; gazette publication 2015-11-26. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: not resolved as a single source-bound field by the retained audit. Roster general application: 2017-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 21. August 1966, 24. September 1979, 9. Mai 2016. Evidence is the retained 2026-10-01 agent audit of source PDF, 2026-01-01 roster and cached official HTML, not a fresh current-law determination. Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.
Protocols and later instruments
Printed signature protocol retained separately and not merged into articles. Roster future-instrument/negotiation entry (NOT proof of operative amendment): Israel R-P P: 24.05.2019 KR KR. P = Paraphierung (initialled), NOT signature; U = signed, ratification pending; V = negotiation. R-P protocol/R-A replacement. MLI application and complete later amendments, replacements or suspensions are NOT verified. No developments after the retained roster snapshot are certified. This is NOT a current consolidated instrument. Source-triage warnings: Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription