(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
a) the term “the Federal Republic of Germany” means 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, insofar as the Federal
Republic of Germany exercises there sovereign rights and
jurisdiction in conformity with international law and its
national legislation for the purpose of exploring, exploiting,
conserving and managing the living and non-living natural
resources;
b) the term “the United Mexican States”, when used in a
geographical sense, means the territory of the United
Mexican States as defined in its Constitution, including any
area beyond its territorial sea where the United Mexican
States may exercise its sovereign rights of exploration and
exploitation of the natural resources of the seabed, sub-soil
and the superjacent waters, in accordance with international
law;
c) the terms “a Contracting State” and “the other Contracting
State” mean the Federal Republic of Germany or the United
Mexican States, as the context requires;
d) the term “person” includes an individual, a company 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 terms “enterprise of a Contracting State” and “enterprise
of the other Contracting State” mean respectively an
enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State
and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other
Contracting State;
g) the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship
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;
h) the term “national” means:
aa) in respect of the Federal Republic of Germany
any German within the meaning of the Basic Law for the
Federal Republic of Germany and any legal person,
partnership and association deriving its status as such
from the laws in force in the Federal Republic of
Germany;
bb) in respect of the United Mexican States
any individual possessing the Mexican nationality
according to the provisions of Article 30 of the Political
Constitution of the United Mexican States, and any legal
person, partnership or association deriving its status as
such from the laws in force in the United Mexican
States;
i)
the term “competent authority” means:
aa) in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany the
Federal Ministry of Finance or the agency to which it has
delegated its powers;
bb) in the case of the United Mexican States, the Ministry of
Finance and Public Credit.
(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-mexico-2009-base | BGBl. 2009 II S. 746 | signed 2008-07-09 | published 2009-07-16 | Signed: 2008-07-09 | Gazette publication: 2009-07-16
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 Spanish 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-mexico-2009-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 2008-07-09; consent law 2009-07-08; gazette publication 2009-07-16. 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: 2010-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 30. Dezember 1993, 15. Oktober 2009, 6. August 2023. 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. Later amending protocol signed 2021-10-08, entered into force 2023-08-06, general application 2024-01-01; NOT included in this base source. Tax-specific application needs review. This signed 2008-07-09 source replaces earlier convention signed 1993-02-23; exact cessation and transition require the entry article, not an edition-year inference. 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-10-08; entry into force: 2023-08-06; general application from: 2024-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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BGBl. 2009 II S. 746 | de-mexico-2009-base | de-mexico-2009-base | BGBl. 2009 II S. 746 | signed 2008-07-09 | published 2009-07-16 | Signed: 2008-07-09 | Gazette publication: 2009-07-16 | Article 3 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-mexico-2009-base/en/articles/article-3/
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Source edition
de-mexico-2009-base | BGBl. 2009 II S. 746 | signed 2008-07-09 | published 2009-07-16 | Signed: 2008-07-09 | Gazette publication: 2009-07-16
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 Spanish 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-mexico-2009-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 2008-07-09; consent law 2009-07-08; gazette publication 2009-07-16. 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: 2010-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 30. Dezember 1993, 15. Oktober 2009, 6. August 2023. 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. Later amending protocol signed 2021-10-08, entered into force 2023-08-06, general application 2024-01-01; NOT included in this base source. Tax-specific application needs review. This signed 2008-07-09 source replaces earlier convention signed 1993-02-23; exact cessation and transition require the entry article, not an edition-year inference. 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. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-10-08; entry into force: 2023-08-06; general application from: 2024-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
Text language and status
en · authentic-language-transcription · machine-transcription