Artikel 8

1. When a competent German authority intends to take one of the measures within the competence of the receiving State and set forth in the first sentence of paragraph 5 of Article III of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, the authority concerned shall communicate this intention to the competent authority of the sending State concerned, stating the reasons invoked in support of the intended measure, and shall afford that authority the possibility of making known its opinion or of itself taking such measures as it might deem fitting within a reasonable period of time. The German authorities shall give sympathetic consideration to any position which might be adopted by the sending State and to any measures which may have been taken by the authorities of that State.
2. Notification of intent to take one of the measures provided for in paragraph 5 of Article III of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement shall be given by the Minister of the Interior of the Land concerned, or, in the cases of Hamburg and Bremen, by the Senator for Internal Affairs.
3. Requests for removal shall be made and expulsion orders shall be issued only if the competent German authority considers that the continued presence in the Federal territory of the person in question actually endangers public order or public security at the time when the request is made or the order is issued.