text: The following provides mandatory data concerning the provider of this website, obligations with regard to data protection, as well as other important legal references involving the Internet site of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (www.mpisoc.mpg.de) as required by German law
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  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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  The Managing Director
  Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
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