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Germany
Seventeen federal-state supervisory authorities without binding coordination; the 2025 coalition agreement on centralisation; the long-delayed Research Data Act.
Lead author: Stefan Brink.
The full country analysis is being prepared from Part III of the policy paper. It will assess this jurisdiction on substantive law, enforcement practice, institutional architecture, and regulatory culture, then identify positive models and pathologies relative to the DR2I framework.