| Chris,
My 748 was a French import. I still managed to get a warranty claim honoured here in UK.
I think it depends on how the bike was imported.
I bought my bike from a French Ducati dealer and imported it myself. It had been previously registered by Ducati France and therefore had a Ducati warranty from France.
If your bike was never registered in Germany and imported as a job-lot in a crate by a non-Ducati organisation, it will never have been registered by a Ducati dealer. | 
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