Overview
- Nearly 200 proposals reached the special session, with about 20 slated for conversion into draft laws and roughly eight expected to be approved today, targeting savings in the single-digit billions.
- Labour Minister Bärbel Bas backs scrapping the safety-officer requirement for firms with fewer than 50 employees and capping such roles at one up to 250 staff, alongside a digital Work-and-Stay agency for skilled migration worth an estimated €200 million in annual business relief.
- Further items under discussion include fully digital property conveyancing, easing of pass and ID procedures, faster and more digital visa processing, and simplifications in pharmaceutical and traffic rules.
- Internal resistance and late or missing submissions persist, with reports that fewer than half of the 17 ministries had filed plans by Monday, leaving the scope and timeline of implementation uncertain.
- Business groups urge EU-level easing as well, pressing for lighter rules on the supply-chain law and sustainability reporting and calling on the European Parliament to adopt a more streamlined position this month.