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ENGLISH VERSION
Commitment to Collective Bargaining Agreements pursuant to
Section 3 Federal Collective Bargaining Compliance Act
(Bundestariftreuegesetz – BTTG)
to be submitted by each bidder / all members of bidding consortia
The bidder undertakes to
grant the employees deployed to perform the services, for the duration of their work on the public contract in Germany, at least the working conditions established by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs through the applicable and relevant statutory regulation pursuant to Section 5 BTTG, or the relevant statutory regulation established by the end of the contract’s execution.
to require of their commissioned subcontractors or temporary work agencies (within the meaning of the Act on Temporary Agency Work (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz – AÜG)), and to ensure through appropriate measures, that they, as well as their respective subcontractors and temporary staffing agencies, fulfill their obligations under Section 4 (1) and (3) BTTG.
to record, by means of appropriate documentation, that they comply with the declared commitment to collective bargaining agreements and to submit the documentation pursuant to Section 9 BTTG to the Federal Compliance Monitoring Agency (Prüfstelle Bundestariftreue) at the German Pension Insurance Fund for Miners, Railway and Maritime Workers (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bahnschaft-Knapp-See) upon request.
Instead of the obligation to provide documentation under Section 9 BTTG, the bidder is entitled to satisfy the required evidence by submitting a suitable certificate from one of the prequalification bodies listed in the procurement regulations (Section 10 (1) BTTG). The same applies to the obligation under Section 3 (2), sentence 1, in conjunction with Section 10 (2) BTTG with respect to subcontractors and / or temporary work agencies engaged by the bidder.
The bidder submits the self-declaration in a binding, complete, and unchanged form.
The date of submission applies.
Person making the declaration text form in accordance with Section 126b Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) – »German Civil Code« [link]
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. Department B12 – Corporate Procurement as of May 2026