AIFM report, AIFMD Annex IV, manager level (AIFMD AIFM report, sections 35, 44 KAGB)

The facts

Who files

AIF management companies with registered office in Germany that manage or intend to manage AIFs in Germany or another EU/EEA state, or market an AIF in the EU/EEA; foreign AIF management companies under section 35(6) KAGB; registered (not authorised) AIF managers under section 44(1) no. 4 and (7) KAGB. Closed-ended legacy funds fully invested before 21.07.2013 that meet section 353(1) KAGB are not reported. Source

How often

Annual, half-yearly or quarterly reporting dates, set for each manager or fund by Article 110(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 231/2013, as cited by BaFin. Source

Deadline

No later than one month after the reporting date, or one month and 15 days if the AIF is a fund of funds (BaFin notice, point 12). BaFin advises not to use the full period because of system delays. Source

Format

XML. XML only, to ESMA's XSD (the notice names AIFMD_DATAIF_V1.2.xsd in xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation and ESMA's IT technical guidance revision 6 for reports from November 2023), compressed with GZIP and uploaded to the MVP Portal in the procedure 'AIFMD-Berichtswesen'. The AIFM report and one file holding all AIF reports are compressed separately and named AIFM_<any name>.gz and AIF_<any name>.gz; one file per management company; e-mail and online forms are not allowed. The 'AIFM national code' and 'AIF national code' fields hold the 8-digit BaFin ID. A test procedure 'TEST: AIFMD-Berichtswesen' is available. Source

How it is filed

Filing routes recorded for the BaFin: MVP Portal (Melde- und Veröffentlichungsplattform, reporting and publishing platform); Direct submission to BaFin outside the MVP Portal. See how firms file with the BaFin.

Status

In force

Legal basis

• Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD), as linked by BaFin

Group

Fund managers: AIFMD reporting (EU, ESMA)

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

EU return: the templates and XML schemas are published by ESMA. The library has no ESMA entry yet, so none is linked. Source

Validation rules

The BaFin publishes the checks it runs on this return. They could not be counted from the published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: ESMA XSD and ESMA validation rules; BaFin returns XML feedback files with error codes (feedback XSDs in annex 7 of BaFin's notice).

BaFin and then ESMA check each file; formal errors are flagged at once, ESMA's feedback can take days. The reporting duty is met only when the MVP status shows 'ESMA ok'. BaFin also reviews content in its Data Quality Engagement Framework (DQEF) and asks for corrections by e-mail. Duplicate files are not processed.

Counts are in the BaFin's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No data from this return published by BaFin was found on the pages checked. Source

Official documents (7)

The BaFin's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

• MVP-Portal

  List of returns · HTML

  BaFin's page on its reporting and publishing platform (Melde- und Veröffentlichungsplattform, MVP). It lists 44 specialised procedures (Fachverfahren) firms use to file with BaFin, with registration steps and manuals. Read in German; the English version lists only 18 of them.

• Anzeige- und Meldepflichten (KVGen & Investmentfonds)

  List of returns · HTML

  Says fund managers file notifications and reports through the MVP Portal as far as possible, except reports under section 14 of the Derivatives Regulation, which go directly to BaFin; an LEI is required for AIFM Regulation and MMF Regulation reports.

• AIFMD-Berichtswesen nach §§ 35, 46 KAGB

  Filing rules · HTML · 10 December 2024

  MVP procedure page for AIFMD reporting at manager and fund level, with a separate test procedure.

• Merkblatt zu den Meldepflichten von AIF-Verwaltungsgesellschaften

  Filing rules · HTML · 30 June 2023

  Scope and legal bases (sections 35 and 44 KAGB, Delegated Regulation (EU) No 231/2013), XML-only format to ESMA's XSD, GZIP files named AIFM_*.gz and AIF_*.gz, one AIF file per manager, BaFin and ESMA checks, status 'ESMA ok', reporting intervals and deadlines, data quality reviews.

• Anlage 6 zum Merkblatt (2015) zu den Meldepflichten AIFMD

  Guidance · PDF · 806.4 KB · 7 July 2015

  Commented example of an AIF report in XML (2015), including how BaFin returns feedback files with error codes.

  SHA-256 2bc61a9b2aa0show in fullhide

  2bc61a9b2aa05fc1a38bb4ab9f7c5c2c3a7ff603629dcb0ebf90d034322c3ab7
• Anlage 7 zum Merkblatt (2015) AIFMD-Reporting

  Schema · ZIP · 29.3 KB · 16 July 2015

  ZIP of XSD files for the feedback files (AIFMD_FDBAIF_V1.2.xsd, AIFMD_FDBMAN_V1.2.xsd and error type schemas).

  SHA-256 779d7b671bc9show in fullhide

  779d7b671bc9083448dafd1b18c52fa45d8f56d7f260bf1193f089b19fd198aa
• Benutzerhandbuch für das MVP Portal

  Guidance · PDF · 3.3 MB

  User manual for registering on the MVP Portal and applying for specialised procedures. Not read in full; size and hash recorded.

  SHA-256 ad770ad7df85show in fullhide

  ad770ad7df85ff9be0dcd51cb1dc67d7edb2db7c7c6cb35cab09ca5ff605278e

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

• bafin.de/DE/unternehmen-maerkte/mvp-portal/aifmd/aifmd-berichtswesen_node.html
• bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Merkblatt/WA/mb_140815_meldepflicht_aif-vwges-35kagb.html?nn=158404
• bafin.de/DE/unternehmen-maerkte/aufsicht/investmentfonds-kgven/anzeige-meldepflichten/anzeige-meldepflichten_node.html

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