47^th day

(2 Aug. 2005)

Last day for political parties – which have not been continuously represented by at least five members in the German Bundestag or in a Landtag since the last election on the basis of their own nominations – to notify the Federal Returning Officer of their intention to participate in the elections (Art. 18 Para. 2 Sentence 1 of BWG).

37^th day

(12 Aug. 2005)

Last day for the Federal Electoral Committee to confirm as binding for all electoral bodies and for the Federal Returning Officer to announce

–

which parties have continuously been represented in the German Bundestag or in a Landtag since the last elections by at least five members on the basis of their own nominations

–

which associations, having given notification of their intention to participate in the elections, have to be recognised as parties for the elections (Art. 18 Para. 4 of BWG).

34^th day

(15 Aug. 2005)

Last day – until 6 p.m. – for submitting constituency nominations to the District Returning Officer and the Land lists to the Land Returning Officer (Art. 19 of BWG).

30^th day

(19 Aug. 2005)

Decision

–

of the Disctrict Electoral Committees on the approval of constituency nominations (Art. 26 Para. 1 Sentence 1 of BWG)

–

of the Land Electoral Committees on the approval of Land lists

(Art. 28 Para. 1 Sentence 1 of BWG).

24^th day

(25 Aug. 2005)

Last day for the decision

–

of the Land Electoral Committee on appeals against decisions on rejecting or admitting a constituency nomination
(Art. 26 Para. 2 Sentence 5 of BWG)

–

of the Federal Electoral Committee on appeals against decisions on rejecting or admitting a Land list (Art. 28 Para. 2 Sentence 5 of BWG).

20^th day

(29 Aug. 2005)

1.

Last day for public announcement

–

of the approved constituency nominations by the District Returning Officer (Art. 26 Para. 3 of BWG)

–

of the approved Land lists by the Land Returning Officer

(Art. 28 Para. 3 of BWG).

2.

Last day – until 6 p.m. – for submitting a written statement to the Federal Returning Officer about the exclusion from the combination of Land lists (Art. 29 Para. 1 of BWG).

16^th day

(2 Sept. 2005)

Last day for the Federal Electoral Committee to decide about the statements about exclusion from the combination of Land lists
(Art. 29 Para. 2 Sentence 1 of BWG).

15^th day

(3 Sept. 2005)

Last day for the Federal Returning Officer to make public the Land lists excluded from combination (Art. 29 Para. 3 of BWG).