Assembly; Display

The Bavarian Assembly Act grants everyone the right to organize public assemblies and to participate in such assemblies. Therefore, neither the event nor the participation in an assembly requires the permission of an authority.

Only open-air assemblies within the pacified district around the Bavarian Parliament require a separate permit, which can be granted by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Sports and Integration in agreement with the President of the Parliament. Applications in this regard must be submitted to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sports and Integration no later than seven days before the announcement of the assembly. This does not affect the obligation to notify the state capital of Munich of the meeting.

Public open-air assemblies take place on generally accessible streets, squares and paths, which is why, according to the Bavarian Assembly Act, the competent assembly authority must reserve the right to make regulations, for example, to protect the participants in the assembly and participants in general road traffic.

A prerequisite for this is the information that a public assembly is to take place in the open air as a stationary or moving assembly. Therefore, you must notify the competent authority (in principle, the local district office or municipality; in the case of urgent assemblies, also the police) in good time - this applies regardless of the expected number of participants - that an open-air assembly is planned and provide the following information:

• Location of the assembly (in the case of moving assemblies, the route),
• Time (intended start and expected end of the assembly),
• Theme,
• Organizer and leader with personal data (surname, first name, maiden name, address).

You will then receive from the authority, as a rule, a notification confirmation, which may be subject to restrictions, depending on the circumstances of each case.

For assemblies in enclosed spaces, on the other hand, there is no obligation to notify.

The prohibition of weapons and uniforms at assemblies is pointed out.

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You must then report an assembly to the competent authority (district office, independent municipality in whose area the assembly is to take place) if

• it is public, i.e., if everyone has the opportunity to participate in it,
• it is to take place outside enclosed spaces (it is irrelevant whether at a fixed location or in the form of an assembly moving from place A to place B), and
• two or more people are to come together for a joint discussion or rally, which is predominantly aimed at participation in the formation of public opinion.

Not reportable assemblies are usually cultural, scientific, religious, sporting or commercial public events such as theater performances, concerts, processions, street festivals, flea markets, and more. Different regulations apply to so-called public amusements. Industrial action, such as picketing in front of companies, is generally not a public gathering and therefore does not have to be reported. However, the situation is different for rallies outside business premises in the context of (warning) strikes, which are intended to inform the public about the content of upcoming or ongoing industrial action.

Under the Bavarian Assembly Act, such an open-air assembly must be announced 48 hours before it is publicly announced - not to be confused with the start of the assembly. Announcement of an assembly is understood to mean the communication by the organizer of the place, time and subject of the assembly to a specific or unspecified group of people, e.g. by announcement on a homepage or in a newspaper. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays are not taken into account when calculating the deadline.

Special regulations apply to so-called urgent and spontaneous meetings. In the case of an emergency meeting, the reason for the meeting arises at short notice. The announcement is to be submitted in this case at the latest with the announcement of the meeting with the responsible place. In the case of a spontaneous meeting, the notification requirement does not apply. However, a spontaneous meeting is only given if it is unplanned and without an organizer, arises from a situation or an immediate occasion.

• Assembly display
  Content: Organizer, responsible leader, day, time, place, topic, expected number of participants, intended course of the meeting, objects brought along for the implementation or technical aids.

Administrative court action
If necessary, granting of interim legal protection in the run-up to a meeting