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Rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertragungsgesetz ^listen ("law on the transfer of supervision requirements for labeling of beef ", abbreviated RflEttAG) is the word German longest that has been used officially ^Background

The parliament of the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was debated in 1999 a bill entitled Rinderkennzeichnungs-und Rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertragungsgesetz. Hilarious before parliamentarians, the Minister responsible for the project Till Backhaus had to apologize for a "long can be excessive."

This word is an extreme example of the construction of compound words of arbitrary length in German. Even from this, we could always build compound words. For example, some opponents of the law might have been found around a Rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertragungsgesetzesgegnerstammtischaschenbecher (ashtray from the table of regulars opponents of the law on the transfer, etc.).. However, it is possible to avoid as long compounds using supplements name : thus, the law passed on 19 January 2000 entitled Gesetz zur bertragung der Aufgaben fr die berwachung und der Rinderkennzeichnung Rindfleischetikettierung.

To criticize this bad style, this noun has been one of the candidates of the Society for the language class in German irony of the word of the year. " It was not, however chosen. With 63 letters, it is the longest German word for inclusion in a document from a member state and is therefore qualified as official German word the longest, although it does not appear in a dictionary.