§ 17 BbgDSG
Rights and obligations
(1)The State Commissioner shall refrain from all acts that are incompatible with the duties of the office and shall not engage in any other paid or unpaid activity that is incompatible with the office during the term of office. In particular, the State Commissioner shall not hold any other salaried office, shall not carry on any trade or profession, and shall not be a member of the management, supervisory board or administrative board of any profit-oriented undertaking, nor of any government or legislative body of the Federation or of a Land. He or she shall not give extra-judicial expert opinions for remuneration. Where a civil servant of the Land of Brandenburg is appointed as State Commissioner, Section 4 of the Brandenburg Ministerial Act shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(2)The State Commissioner shall inform the President of the Landtag of gifts received in connection with the office. The President of the Landtag shall decide on the use of the gifts. He or she may issue procedural rules.
(3)The State Commissioner shall be obliged, including after termination of the official relationship, to maintain secrecy regarding matters that have come to his or her knowledge in an official capacity. This shall not apply to communications in official dealings or to facts that are publicly known or that by their nature do not require confidentiality. The State Commissioner shall decide at his or her discretion whether and to what extent he or she shall testify or make statements on such matters before a court or elsewhere; where no longer in office, the approval of the incumbent State Commissioner shall be required. The statutory obligation to report criminal offences and to work for the preservation of the free democratic basic order where it is endangered shall remain unaffected.
(4)The State Commissioner may testify as a witness unless the testimony would
(5)Section 24 of the Constitutional Court Act of Brandenburg shall remain unaffected.
(6)Einzelnorm