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BaFa publishes anonymised findings from 300 German supply chain act audits

27 March 2026 6 min read
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Germany's supervisory authority shares patterns from LkSG compliance reviews: risk analysis is improving, but remediation tracking remains the weakest control.

The German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control published aggregated findings from its first 300 LkSG audits, reporting that most companies now perform structured risk analysis but fewer than half can evidence completed remediation.

BaFa signalled that future reviews will focus on effectiveness — whether identified risks actually got fixed — rather than the existence of policies and processes on paper.

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