Providers of online coaching services take note: The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has recently provided clarity on which coaching offerings qualify as “distance learning” and thus, fall under the approval requirement of the German Distance Learning Act (FernUSG).
Anyone offering digital coaching models without the required official approval
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Any cloud service provider seeking to offer cloud services to the German public sector will inevitably have to deal with the Supplementary Contractual Conditions for the Procurement of IT Services (Ergänzende Vertragsbedingungen für die Beschaffung von IT-Leistungen – “EVB-IT”). The EVB-IT were developed by the Federal/State/Local Cooperation
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Discussions surrounding the German Distance Learning Protection Act (FernUSG), which has been in effect since 1976, have gained momentum again in recent years in Germany. The reason is the growing popularity of online coaching. While remote coaching has already existed in some forms for over 30 years, the range of
Continue Reading Regulatory wake-up call: The increasing relevance of the German Distance Learning Protection Act (FernUSG) for digital coaching models
