Guard register comes - but later
Shortly before the summer break, Germany's Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) dealt with the project for a central guard register. The result: security companies are being accommodated somewhat.
In the central Guard register the data of security companies and their personnel are to be recorded electronically throughout Germany in order to speed up administrative processes under security law and make them more transparent. "Fortunately, the Bundesrat has taken up some of our demands in order to make the register an added value for security companies and the administration," says Harald Olschok of the Bundesverband der Sicherheitswirtschaft (BDSW).
More time to register for the first time
"We expect that the introduction of the guard register will significantly shorten the review times for the background check of employees with the register, which are still far too long in many parts of Germany," Olschok said. In its statement on the legislative project, the Bundesrat took up a core demand of the BDSW to give security companies six months for the initial filling of more than 250,000 employees. The originally envisaged "filling period" of six weeks was too short, he said. "Thoroughness must take precedence over speed," Olschok said. "So that the security companies can prepare sensibly and quickly for the initial data registration, the companies should immediately be provided with the intended template (CSV file) as a test version by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Only in this way can the security companies identify any interface problems with their corresponding software and rectify them at an early stage," Olschok concludes.
Source: BDSW
