Overview
- The draft legislation obliges former senators to report any outside employment for 24 months after leaving office.
- Under the proposal, authorities could block ex-senators from accepting certain private-sector roles for typically 12 months and up to 24 months.
- The bill will enter administrative and stakeholder consultation in early September ahead of its planned enactment before the September 2026 House election.
- Berlin’s framework is based on Brandenburg’s 2016 cooling-off rule aimed at preventing conflicts of interest and safeguarding public trust.
- Brandenburg officials are concurrently reviewing whether ex-minister Jörg Steinbach’s advisory role on a Tesla-related matter breaches their existing conflict-of-interest rules.