The Preventive Health Care Act Germany adopted in July 2015 defines that the institutions involved in the National Prevention Conference have to publish a prevention report on a four year basis. In the report they have to detail their efforts towards settings-based primary prevention and health promotion. This article outlines the legal requirements for the prevention report and the status of the concept for the first report in 2019. Legal background On 19 February 2016, Germany's National

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... ntion Conference (NPK), which was established in autumn 2015, adopted its initial federal framework recommendations on settings-based primary prevention and health promotion [1] . These recommendations refer to three life course goals which the institutions involved in the NPK (GKV-Spitzenverband, DGUV, Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture, German Statutory Pension Insurance) share: Grow up healthy, Living and working healthy and Healthy ageing. For all three of these goals the recommendations describe the priority fields of action and target groups. Moreover, the ser vices that statutory health and accident insurers, pension funds as well as long-term care insurance funds contribute are outlined. Possibilities and requirements for cooperation are addressed as well. The Preventive Health Care Act [2] determines that, every four years, the institutions involved in the National Prevention Conference are to document and evaluate their activities regarding the implementation of the federal framework recommendations in a prevention report.