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Here is a list of the rules for each state:
- Baden-Württemberg: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Bavaria: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time. However, in Munich, stores can only open on two Sundays per year.
- Berlin: Stores can open on ten Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time. However, eight of these Sundays must be between November and January.
- Brandenburg: Stores can open on six Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Bremen: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Hamburg: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Hesse: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Lower Saxony: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Stores can open on eight Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Rhineland-Palatinate: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Saarland: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Saxony: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Saxony-Anhalt: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
- Schleswig-Holstein: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of five hours each time.
- Thuringia: Stores can open on four Sundays per year, for a maximum of six hours each time.
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