Act for Greater Justice Through Strengthening the Customs Administration and Combating Financial Crime

1. Introduced
2. CommitteeBeschlussempfehlung und Bericht (Empfehlung: Annahme der Vorlage in Ausschussfassung)
3. Floor
4. Passed
5. Law

Latest action

11 Nov 2026Beschlussempfehlung und Bericht (Empfehlung: Annahme der Vorlage in Ausschussfassung)

Comprehensive modernization of the customs administration as part of the “Customs 2030” initiative and implementation of objectives in the coalition agreement: restructuring of the General Customs Directorate with the specialist divisions “Customs and Taxes” and “Security and Enforcement,” merging investigative and enforcement units, retaining the Financial Control of Undeclared Work as a separate organizational unit while further strengthening its staffing and budget and expanding its investigative powers, strengthening the tasks and powers of the customs administration in combating international money laundering, including establishing specialized investigative units and an administrative procedure to clarify the origin of assets of questionable provenance, improving cooperation and data exchange between the Central Office for Financial Transaction Investigations and other actors, implementing the FATF recommendations by establishing the Interministerial Steering Committee in law and strengthening the Länder’s supervisory activities; restrictions on fundamental rights concerning personal liberty, freedom of movement, the secrecy of telecommunications and the inviolability of the home Amendment of 17 laws and 1 statutory ordinance, as well as consequential amendments to 62 laws and 2 statutory ordinances; authorization to issue ordinances Reference: Customs structural reform “2030”; agreements in the coalition agreement on combating money laundering and financial crime

• Plenarprotokoll BT-PlPr. 21/100 (PDF)dserver.bundestag.de
• Plenarprotokoll BT-PlPr. 21/100 (XML)dserver.bundestag.de
• Plenarprotokoll BR-PlPr. 1068 (PDF)dserver.bundestag.de
• Stellungnahme (BR-Drs. 446/26(B))dserver.bundestag.de
• Empfehlungen (BR-Drs. 446/1/26)dserver.bundestag.de
• Gesetzentwurf (BR-Drs. 446/26)dserver.bundestag.de