Act applied to companies with 3,000 or more employees.
Threshold lowered to 1,000 employees.
Coalition agreement announced repeal and replacement through the CSDDD transposition.
Cabinet bill abolished the reporting duty retroactively and narrowed the fines catalogue.
BAFA limited enforcement to serious violations and stopped reviewing reports.
Bundestag began deliberating the amendment bill.
Coalition decided to restrict the act to companies with at least 5,000 employees and more than EUR 1.5 billion in worldwide turnover from autumn 2026, and to transpose the CSDDD one to one.
Ahead
Amendment bill still not passed, and no bill yet introduced for the narrower scope.
The first compliance date for the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act is January 2023 (3,000+ employees); January 2024 (1,000+). All statutory application dates have now passed.
As of 13 October 2026, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act is reform proposed in Germany. The German due diligence law that shaped supplier questionnaires worldwide, now being folded into CSDDD transposition.
Corrected the claim that the reporting duty was removed in 2025: the bill has not passed, although BAFA stopped reviewing reports in October 2025. Added the coalition decision of 2 July 2026 to narrow the scope. That revision was logged in October 2026 on the hredd.org tracker.
Tracker revisions, logged openly
October 2026 Corrected the claim that the reporting duty was removed in 2025: the bill has not passed, although BAFA stopped reviewing reports in October 2025. Added the coalition decision of 2 July 2026 to narrow the scope.
May 2026 Entry updated to track the repeal-and-replace bill and narrowed BAFA enforcement.
Sources for every date live on the full tracker entry · movement lands in the monthly digest first