On 18 July 2018, the German Department of State distributed to
associations in Germany, a first ministerial draft of a German
Federal Brexit Implementation Act, Brexit-Übergangsgesetz
(BrexitÜG), for consultation by 8 August 2018.
The draft Act provides that the UK shall, during the proposed
transition period from 30 March 2019 to 31 December 2020, be deemed
to be a member state of the EU for all purposes of German Federal
Law. However, the BrexitÜG only deals with the Brexit
transition on German Federal law level – it does not address
the Brexit transition on the level of the state laws of the 16
German states. State-level Brexit transition provisions will need
to be adopted by the individual state parliaments.
