BAFA: Supply Chain Act
The supervisor's guidance, handouts and current text.
A risk analysis needs to know the supplier.
Germany's Supply Chain Due Diligence Act asks large companies to analyse human rights and environmental risks in their own operations and at direct suppliers.
Fill Easy returns registry records on who each supplier is and who owns it.
Due diligence for companies with 1,000 staff in Germany.
The Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG) has applied since 1 January 2023 to companies with at least 3,000 employees in Germany, and since 1 January 2024 to those with at least 1,000. The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) supervises it.
Companies analyse risk in their own business and at direct suppliers, and at indirect suppliers where they have substantiated knowledge of a possible violation. Germany has announced changes as the EU's due diligence directive is implemented; check the current text with BAFA.
At a glance
- Law
- Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG)
- Applies since
- 1 January 2023 (3,000+ employees); 1 January 2024 (1,000+)
- Supervisor
- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
- Scope
- Own business, direct suppliers, and indirect suppliers on substantiated knowledge
Trade and sustainability
The supplier facts a risk analysis rests on.
Where company records feed the analysis.
| Obligation | What it asks | What Fill Easy returns |
|---|---|---|
| Identify direct suppliers | The legal entities you buy from, and where they operate | Registry extract and statutory documents from the company's home registry, across 60+ jurisdictions |
| Understand ownership | Who stands behind each supplier | Ownership traced layer by layer through each registry to the natural persons at the top |
| Risk indicators | Signals that raise a supplier's risk | AML, sanctions and PEP screening on the company and the people found; credit reports and litigation searches |
| Annual and event-driven review | The analysis repeated each year and when risks change | Monitoring and remediation: the book re-checked at source from one Excel file |
A summary, not legal advice: the official text governs, and your compliance team decides what your policies require.
Read the source
The official text.
LkSG, Gesetze im Internet
The act in German, as published by the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Questions about German Supply Chain Act
Not covered here? Ask our team
Does Fill Easy make us compliant with German Supply Chain Act?
No. The due diligence duty sits with your firm under German Supply Chain Act, and your policies decide what is enough. Fill Easy supplies the evidence those policies rely on: records from the government or registry source, each showing where and when it was retrieved.
We only buy through distributors. Are the manufacturers in scope?
They are indirect suppliers, in scope where you have substantiated knowledge of a possible violation. Fill Easy can trace the entities behind a distributor if your analysis needs it.