Overview

• Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt say they will not initial the draft treaty until ARD and ZDF withdraw their constitutional complaint.
• The Saxon minister-president has not signed the draft, and a Landtag committee advanced it by only one vote with a full parliamentary decision due at the end of October.
• All 16 state parliaments must ratify for the treaty to take effect, so rejection by a single Land would block nationwide implementation.
• States have until November 30 to approve and transmit ratification documents to Rhineland-Palatinate, a window that officials caution is unlikely to salvage the package.
• The reform would have introduced a Widerspruchsmodell for KEF recommendations and included cuts to radio and niche channels, a cap on sports-rights spending, and tighter limits on text-heavy content.