(1)
a) Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration, other than a
pension, paid by a Contracting State, a Land, an administra-
tive-territorial unit or a local authority thereof or some other
legal entity under public law of that State to an individual in
respect of services rendered to that State, Land, administra-
tive-territorial unit or local authority or some other legal entity
under public law shall be taxable only in that State.
b) However, such remuneration shall be taxable only in the other
Contracting State if the services are rendered in that State
and if the individual is a resident of that State and
aa) is a national of that State; or
bb) did not become a resident of that State solely for the
purpose of rendering the services.
(2)
a) Any pension paid by, or out of funds created by, a Contract-
ing State, a Land, an administrative-territorial unit or a local
authority thereof or some other legal entity under public law
of that State to an individual in respect of services rendered
to that State, Land, administrative-territorial unit or local
authority or some other legal entity under public law shall be
taxable only in that State.
b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other
Contracting State if the individual is a resident of, and a
national of, that State.
(3) The provisions of Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 shall apply to
remuneration and pensions in respect of services rendered in
connection with a business carried on by a Contracting State, a
Land, an administrative-territorial unit or a local authority thereof
or some other legal entity under public law of that State.
(4) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise apply in
respect of remuneration paid, under a development assistance
programme of a Contracting State, a Land, an administrative-ter-
ritorial unit, or a local authority thereof, out of funds exclusively
supplied by that State, Land, administrative-territorial unit or
local authority, to a specialist or volunteer sent to the other Con-
tracting State with the consent of that other State.
(5) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall likewise apply in
respect of remuneration paid by or for the Goethe Institute Inter
Nationes or the German Academic Exchange Service (“Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst”) of the Federal Republic of
Germany. Corresponding treatment of the remuneration of other
comparable institutions of the Contracting States may be ar-
ranged by the competent authorities by mutual agreement. If
such remuneration is not taxed in the State where the main office
of the institution is situated, the provisions of Article 15 shall
apply.
de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
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German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. 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-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.
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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 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. 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.
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BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | de-romania-2003-base | de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14 | Article 19 | en | Pending human wording, completeness, source-authority, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No legal review performed. | /library/treaties/de-romania-2003-base/en/articles/article-19/
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Source edition
de-romania-2003-base | BGBl. 2003 II S. 1594 | signed 2001-07-04 | published 2003-11-14 | Signed: 2001-07-04 | Gazette publication: 2003-11-14
Source form
Original official-publication PDF retained unchanged. Reader uses explicit native-font ToUnicode derivative; exact original word text and geometry unchanged, no OCR.
Source scope
original implementing law, multilingual base treaty and accompanying protocol; not a current consolidated text
Retrieved
2026-09-30
Text and language scope
German and English are separate complete physical source regions. The closing also names Romanian, NOT printed as a separate language version in this retained original; no Romanian asset or translation. English precedence clause is retained. 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-romania-2003-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Native Type1 diagnostic recovery: all used font codes independently mapped and glyphs loaded; only overlong Copyright metadata lines remain as retained Poppler warnings. No text repair or warning suppression. Full machine evidence and full physical pages: /geometry/de-romania-2003-base/.
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 2001-07-04; consent law 2003-11-12; gazette publication 2003-11-14. Edition ID year is not a signature date. Treaty entry into force: 2003-12-17. Roster general application: 2004-01-01 (not a universal tax-specific rule). Cached official article entry statements (may refer to multiple instruments): 17. Dezember 2003. 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): Rumänien R-P V. 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
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