German Corporate Sanctions Law failed (for now)
/After this development had been apparent for several months, the legislative project for a German corporate sanctions law has now failed; at least for this legislative period. Although the governing parties had already agreed on a “new sanctions law for companies” in the coalition agreement in 2018, and an “unofficial” draft bill was available in August 2019, which finally made it to a governmental draft in 2020 under the title “Law to Strengthen Integrity in Business”, the project has now (for the time being) failed after intensive discussions in recent months.
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