Apple Volume Purchase Program

dear community,
i got a question for germany. did anybody know if in germany also start a volume purchase program?
i am working for a publisher. we enroll a lot of unpersonal ipads and we need to install some buyed programs there. in the u.s. is this program already started. but when will it come through germany? or did anybody know another way to enroll some programs to business ipads (for e.g. we buy documents to go once and need to install ist at 20 ipads - how does it works?).
thx for your reading and help
bye imre

nope just free apps or enterprise ones. i normally send the url to the person in an email

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