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🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

👉 Find the full video and article here: www.zdfheute.de/video/fronta...

🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

📢 "We have pushed forward with proceedings against companies that have effectively defied the law or failed to remedy known violations. However, under pressure from above, fines were never imposed."

🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

📢 "If the law and the supervision process were taken seriously now, then we'd actually have to review a lot more cases."

🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

📢 "The general impression is that the department is supposed to be put on the back burner."

🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

📢 "With these restrictions, effective enforcement of this law is impossible."

🚨 Is the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (German Ministry of Economic Affairs) repealing the German Supply Chain Act through the "back door" by making the @bafa.de (supervisory authority) stop enforcing it? Today's reply by the government to the minor interpellation of @gruene.de speaks volumes:

👉 Read more about it at @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/poli...

🚨 Is the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (German Ministry of Economic Affairs) repealing the German Supply Chain Act through the "back door" by making the @bafa.de (supervisory authority) stop enforcing it? Today's reply by the government to the minor interpellation of @gruene.de speaks volumes:

❗ This official response by the German government proves what civil society organizations like @ecchr.bsky.social have been saying for months: Ever since taking office, the conservatives in the German government, under pressure from business lobbyists, have tried to get rid of the law.

🚨 Is the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (German Ministry of Economic Affairs) repealing the German Supply Chain Act through the "back door" by making the @bafa.de (supervisory authority) stop enforcing it? Today's reply by the government to the minor interpellation of @gruene.de speaks volumes:

0️⃣ Due to the lack of an "investigation plan" for 2026, initiating new risk-based controls has been "deprioritized" in 2026. In other words: In the first half of 2026, zero (!) new risk-based controls have been opened.

🚨 Is the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (German Ministry of Economic Affairs) repealing the German Supply Chain Act through the "back door" by making the @bafa.de (supervisory authority) stop enforcing it? Today's reply by the government to the minor interpellation of @gruene.de speaks volumes:

👩‍⚖️ The entire department, by now, only employs four lawyers (which seems quite ambitious given that they have to enforce completely novel and highly contested legal provisions).

🚨 Is the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (German Ministry of Economic Affairs) repealing the German Supply Chain Act through the "back door" by making the @bafa.de (supervisory authority) stop enforcing it? Today's reply by the government to the minor interpellation of @gruene.de speaks volumes:

🚨 Die Einschränkungen hätten fatale Konsequenzen für Transparenz und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Erfolgen wie das 2022 von @fiandeutschland.bsky.social mit Unterstützung vom @ecchr.bsky.social erstrittene Urteil des VG Frankfurt a.M. gegen die Staatsbank KfW würde damit die Rechtsgrundlage entzogen.

👉https://www.ecchr.eu/pressemitteilung/urteil-kfw-ist-nach-ifg-informationspflichtig-und-muss-angefragte-informationen-zu-agrar-investition-in-paraguay-von-der-deg-beschaffen/

🚨 Die Einschränkungen hätten fatale Konsequenzen für Transparenz und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Erfolgen wie das 2022 von @fiandeutschland.bsky.social mit Unterstützung vom @ecchr.bsky.social erstrittene Urteil des VG Frankfurt a.M. gegen die Staatsbank KfW würde damit die Rechtsgrundlage entzogen.

@bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de sabotiert die Durchsetzung des Lieferkettengesetzes durch das @bafa.de - obwohl das Gesetz nach wie vor unverändert in Kraft ist. Im CorA-Newsletter-Beitrag zeigen wir, warum das gegen rechtsstaatliche Grundsätze und die Gewaltenteilung verstößt.

👉zum Beitrag: www.cora-netz.de/gesetzesabsc...

🚨 Insiders in the @bafa.de (Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control) report about how the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) is stealthily "winding down" the public authority supposed to enforce the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG).

Read more about it in this (German) Table Briefings article by @caspardohmen.bsky.social: table.media/esg/analyse/...

🚨 Insiders in the @bafa.de (Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control) report about how the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) is stealthily "winding down" the public authority supposed to enforce the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG).

Such news and our own experience with accompanying affected rights holders in their complaints procedures before the BAFA increasingly leads us to the conclusion that the German government doesn't actually want the authority to effectively enforce the law.

🚨 Insiders in the @bafa.de (Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control) report about how the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) is stealthily "winding down" the public authority supposed to enforce the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG).

The Ministry says there is "no doubt" about the BAFA's ability to work. But a mere look at the BAFA's organizational chart as it has been updated just 7 days ago (see picture below) calls that into question:

🚨 Insiders in the @bafa.de (Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control) report about how the @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) is stealthily "winding down" the public authority supposed to enforce the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG).

A win that shouldn't have been necessary: Ecuadorian trade union ASTAC, with support from @oxfam-de.bsky.social, @misereor.bsky.social and @ecchr.bsky.social, filed the first successful disciplinary complaint about the @bafa.de's unfair treatment of complainants under the German Supply Chain Act. 👇

Ich durfte als Sachverständige im Menschenrechtsausschuss des @bundestag.de für @dielinkebt.de über das Lieferkettengesetz sprechen. ⏱️ Gutes Timing: Morgen diskutiert der Bundestag, ob das Lieferkettengesetz abgeschwächt werden soll – unter Verstoß gegen das menschenrechtliche Rückschrittsverbot! 🚫

👉 Die ganze Anhörung kann man hier nachschauen (um die Erfahrungen des @ecchr.bsky.social mit dem Lieferkettengesetz geht es bei 15:05, 52:50, 1:27:53, 1:33:40, 2:26:35, 02:40:26): www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/...