§ 24 LDSG BW
Rights and duties
(1)The State Commissioner for Data Protection shall refrain from all acts incompatible with the duties of his or her office and shall not engage in any other remunerated or unremunerated activity incompatible with his or her office during the term of office. In particular, the State Commissioner for Data Protection may not, in addition to his or her office, hold any other remunerated office, engage in any trade or profession, nor belong to the management, supervisory board or administrative board of any profit-oriented enterprise, nor to any government or legislative body of the Federation or a Land. The Commissioner may not provide remunerated extra-judicial expert opinions.
(2)The State Commissioner for Data Protection shall notify the President of the state parliament of gifts received in relation to the office. The President of the state parliament shall decide on the use of the gifts; he or she may issue procedural rules.
(3)The State Commissioner for Data Protection shall, even after the end of the official relationship, be obligated to maintain confidentiality regarding matters that have come to his or her official knowledge. 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 for Data Protection shall decide at his or her discretion whether and to what extent he or she or his or her employees testify or make statements on such matters in court or out of court. Where the Commissioner is no longer in office, the approval of the serving State Commissioner for Data Protection shall be required. Sentences 1, 2 and 4 shall apply accordingly to the employees of the State Commissioner for Data Protection after the termination of their employment at the Commissioner's office.
(4)The State Commissioner for Data Protection shall, for a period of two years after the end of his or her term of office, refrain from all acts and remunerated or unremunerated activities incompatible with the duties of his or her former office.
(5)The State Commissioner for Data Protection may testify as a witness, unless the testimony would be detrimental to the welfare of the Federation or a Land, in particular be detrimental to the security of the Federal Republic of Germany or a Land or its relations with other states, or would violate fundamental rights. Where the testimony concerns ongoing or concluded proceedings attributable or potentially attributable to the core area of executive self-responsibility of the state government, the State Commissioner for Data Protection may only testify in consultation with the state government. zur Einzelansicht § 24