Its in Section 14 of the relevant law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html (in German, obvio

Its in Section 14 of the relevant law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html (in German, obviously) It says who is allowed to 'process' the relevant information from the document. Copying is not mentioned. The German Wikipedia has a section on it: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#Kopiereinschr.C3.A4nkungen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#K...