The law is intended to reduce the risk for people who point out abuses in a company or authority. The new regulations are intended to implement an EU directive. Germany is already well behind schedule.

The Bundestag had already passed a corresponding draft law, but this failed in February in the Bundesrat. Above all, countries with CDU/CSU government participation had expressed reservations. Among other things, they asserted that the draft would cause high costs and a lot of bureaucracy. So there was a new attempt, this time divided into two laws.

In the opinion of the federal government, the main law would no longer require the approval of the Bundesrat and could therefore probably no longer be stopped there. Only the supplementary law would then be subject to approval. In the talks with the CDU/CSU, which are now being continued, the division into two laws could also be reversed.