The Germany Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act

                  DEUTSCHER BUNDESTAG
                  21. Wahlperiode, 2026 Session

                  GESETZENTWURF / DRAFT BILL

EINGEBRACHT VON ________ (Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestages) INTRODUCED BY ________ (Members of the German Bundestag)

ZUR EINRICHTUNG DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESANSTALT FÜR PRODUKTIONSKAPAZITÄT UND ENERGIESICHERHEIT

CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN FEDERAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AND THE PROVISION OF ENERGY SECURITY

                  EIN GESETZ / AN ACT

LONG TITLE / LANGTITEL

GESETZ DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER DIE EINRICHTUNG DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESANSTALT FÜR PRODUKTIONSKAPAZITÄT, DES BÜRGER-ROBOTER-KORPS DEUTSCHLAND, DES PERSÖNLICHEN PRODUKTIONSVERMÖGENS, UND DER NATIONALEN ENERGIESICHERHEIT

AN ACT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY concerning the establishment of the German Federal Productive Capacity Authority (Deutsche Bundesanstalt für Produktionskapazität, "DBPK") as an Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts under the operational coordination of the Kreditanstalt für Wieder- aufbau (KfW), modelled on the German public-financial- institution tradition since 1948; the establishment of the Civic Robot Corps of Germany (Bürger-Roboter-Korps Deutschland, "BRKD") including a Kohleregion- Transitionsdienst (Coal-Region Transition Service, KRTS) for the 2026-2038 build-out across Lausitz (Brandenburg + Sachsen), Rhenish lignite (Nordrhein-Westfalen), and Mitteldeutsches Revier (Sachsen-Anhalt + Sachsen); the conferral of a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Persönliches Produktionsvermögen) on every person ordinarily resident in the Republic, identified by Steueridentifikationsnummer (Steuer-ID), distributed through the statutory Krankenkassen via the eGK, the BundID, and AusweisApp2; sixteen Regional Delivery Units (Regionale Liefereinheiten) corresponding to the sixteen German Länder; ENERGY SECURITY elevated as a co-equal Title coordinating with the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), the four German Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT, TransnetBW), the completed Atomausstieg (15 April 2023), the Kohleausstieg under the Kohleverstromungsbeendigungs- gesetz (KVBG, last coal-fired plant to close not later than 2038), the Energiewende 2045 climate-neutrality trajectory under the Klimaschutzgesetz, and the EEG (Erneuerbare- Energien-Gesetz, 80 percent renewable electricity by 2030); coordination with the Deutscher Aufbau- und Resilienzplan (DARP, approximately EUR 28 billion under NextGenerationEU); coordination with the DGRV cooperative apex organisation, the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking network, and the Energiegenossenschaften under the Genossenschaftsgesetz of 1889; explicit declination to establish any new German Einkommensteuer, Körperschaftsteuer, Umsatzsteuer, Solidaritätszuschlag, Verbrauchsteuer, or other German tax of any kind for the funding of the Authority; explicit preservation of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Sozialversicherung, KfW (beyond authorised coordination), the Bundesnetzagentur, the four TSOs, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, and all other existing German institutions; consistency with the Grundgesetz (1949), particularly Artikel 14 (property with social obligation), Artikel 20(1) and Artikel 28(1) (Sozialstaatsprinzip), and Artikel 20a (environmental obligation); consistency with the philosophical heritage of the Bismarck Sozialgesetz- gebung of 1883-1889, the Marshall Plan / KfW founding of 1948, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft synthesis of Walter Eucken and Ludwig Erhard ("Wohlstand für Alle" 1957), the Mitbestimmung tradition, and the Genossenschaft cooperative heritage of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1850) and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1864); and provision for connected purposes.

LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE

This Gesetzentwurf is structured for introduction in the Deutscher Bundestag under the standard German parliamentary routing. Following adoption by the Bundestag (Artikel 77 Grundgesetz), the text proceeds to the Bundesrat under Articles 77 and 78 GG. If adopted by both chambers, the text is signed by the Bundespräsident and published in the Bundesgesetzblatt (BGBl I). Constitutional review by the Bundesverfassungsgericht at Karlsruhe is available on application by qualified petitioners under Artikel 93 GG.

The institutional offices named in this Act are cited by office, not by personal incumbent, to permit durable application irrespective of coalition rotations.

FINDINGS

The Deutscher Bundestag, having considered the operational record of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau since 1948, of the Bismarck Sozialgesetzgebung since 1883, of the Soziale Marktwirtschaft since 1948, of the German cooperative tradition through DGRV and the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken network since 1850, of the post- Atomausstieg German energy system since 15 April 2023, and of the Kohleausstieg statutory framework under the KVBG since 2020, finds:

(1) THE GERMAN INSTITUTIONAL CHASSIS IS LOAD-BEARING.

    The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, founded 1948
    under the Marshall Plan with an approximately EUR 600
    billion balance sheet and CEO Stefan Wintels, is the
    largest state-owned development bank in the world and
    the natural German chartering chassis for sovereign-
    anchored long-horizon programmes. The Bundesnetz-
    agentur regulates German electricity, gas,
    telecommunications, post, and railway. The four
    German Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (50Hertz, Amprion,
    TenneT, TransnetBW) operate the German transmission
    grid. The DGRV apex organisation and the Volksbanken
    Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking network
    coordinate the German Genossenschaft sector. No new
    institutions are required. No new tax instruments are
    required. This Act coordinates and extends what
    already exists.

(2) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (A): THE REPLICATION

    THRESHOLD ARRIVED Q4 2025. Per Universal Foundational
    Citation (A), the global humanoid-robotics ecosystem
    crossed the sub-USD-30,000 inflection between Q4 2025
    and Q2 2026 (Unitree R1 ~USD 5,900; Unitree G1 ~USD
    13,500-17,500; Apptronik Apollo USD 5B valuation;
    Agility Digit USD 20,000-25,000 per-year RaaS).
    Foundation-model robotic intelligence (NVIDIA GR00T,
    Physical Intelligence pi-0, Boston Dynamics Atlas,
    Tesla Optimus, Figure 02) is concurrently
    operational. The energy companion (Commonwealth
    Fusion Systems ARC plant 400 MW Virginia grid-
    connection application April 2026, SPARC demo 2027,
    Helion 50 MW Microsoft PPA 2028) confirms the
    parallel arrival of post-replication-threshold energy
    capacity. Germany is positioned to operate at the
    post-replication-threshold scale because of (a) KfW
    sovereign-coordination capacity, (b) the Energie-
    wende 2045 trajectory, (c) the post-Atomausstieg
    renewable-electricity build-out, and (d) the four-TSO
    grid-coordination chassis. This Act activates that
    positioning operationally.

(3) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (B): THE

    ARITHMETIC APPLIES TO GERMANY. Per Universal
    Foundational Citation (B), the U.S. arithmetic
    establishes that 293,000 manufacturing facilities at
    77 percent utilization yield 19.5-29.3x productive-
    capacity overcapacity. The German parallel: Germany
    has approximately 247,000 industrial establishments
    per Destatis; the German industrial productive
    capacity is among the strongest in Europe; the
    constraint on German productive-capacity activation
    is not capacity but coordination. This Act is the
    coordination Act.

(4) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (C): THE GRADIENT

    DAMAGES GERMAN POPULATION HEALTH. Per Universal
    Foundational Citation (C), the Marmot quartet
    establishes that hierarchy itself kills across four
    research programmes, six decades, and three species.
    The gap is the gradient. This Act and its companion
    DBZ Act remove the basic-needs stratification at the
    layer at which the Marmot quartet finds most
    aggressive damage. The post-reunification East-West
    gradient in Germany is the load-bearing German
    parallel to the Marmot finding.

(5) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (D): GERMAN ADULT

    COMPETENCY OUTCOMES ARE IN THE DECLINING-OECD
    COHORT. Per Universal Foundational Citation (D),
    PIAAC 2023 documents declining or stagnating adult-
    skills outcomes across 19 of 26 OECD countries.
    Germany is in the declining cohort. The Civic Robot
    Corps of Germany established under Title III
    provides the structured skills-development response,
    coordinated with the Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst
    for displaced coal-region workforce.

(6) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (E): THE GERMAN

    HISTORICAL RECORD ALREADY RESOLVES THE QUESTION. Per
    Universal Foundational Citation (E), at-cost civic
    provisioning has 158 years of U.S. commissary
    evidence, 400 years of Roman annona civica operation,
    and the Tabula Alimentaria Veleia bronze documentary
    record. On German ground: the Bismarck Sozial-
    gesetzgebung of 1883-1889, the world's first
    comprehensive social-insurance system. The Marshall
    Plan / KfW founding of 1948. The Soziale
    Marktwirtschaft synthesis of Eucken and Erhard.
    Ludwig Erhard's "Wohlstand für Alle" (1957). The
    mechanism is operationally validated on German ground
    in German institutions in German statutory law going
    back 142 years.

(7) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (F): THE

    AUTOMATION-DISPLACEMENT SHIFT IS UNDER WAY. Per
    Universal Foundational Citation (F), Aurora
    Innovation driverless freight is operational on the
    Dallas-Houston corridor 2024-2025; retail-sector
    employment is contracting under e-commerce
    restructuring; the KVBG Kohleausstieg workforce
    redistribution (Lausitz + Rhenish lignite +
    Mitteldeutsches Revier, approximately 20,000 direct
    jobs) creates a structural employment-pattern shift.
    This Act does not eliminate jobs. The replication-
    threshold transition, the coal phase-out, and the
    OECD-wide retail restructuring create the
    employment-pattern shift. This Act establishes the
    productive-capacity floor and the Kohleregion-
    Transitionsdienst that catches German workers when
    those shifts occur.

(8) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (G): THE

    AUTHORITY IS NOT STATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF
    PRODUCTION. Per Universal Foundational Citation (G),
    the Authority contracts with German private
    engineering and construction firms, German private
    specialty manufacturers, German private logistics
    operators, and German private agricultural producers
    at production cost plus a reasonable distribution
    allowance. The German private market continues
    without restriction consistent with the Soziale
    Marktwirtschaft tradition of Walter Eucken and
    Ludwig Erhard, and with the broader German economic-
    philosophical settlement codified across the post-
    1949 CDU-SPD political axis.

(9) THE GRUNDGESETZ ARTICLE 14 AND ARTICLE 20(1) ANCHOR

    THE AUTHORITY. Artikel 14 of the Grundgesetz
    establishes that "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein
    Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit
    dienen" (property entails social obligation; its use
    shall serve the common good). Artikel 20(1) and
    Artikel 28(1) establish the Federal Republic of
    Germany as "ein demokratischer und sozialer
    Bundesstaat" (Sozialstaatsprinzip), constitutional-
    load-bearing per Bundesverfassungsgericht
    jurisprudence since BVerfGE 1, 97 of 19 December
    1951. The Authority operates within this
    constitutional framing.

(10) THE BISMARCK SOZIALGESETZGEBUNG IS THE INSTITUTIONAL

     LINEAGE ANCHOR. The Krankenversicherungsgesetz of
     1883, the Unfallversicherungsgesetz of 1884, and the
     Rentenversicherungsgesetz of 1889 established
     Germany as the founder of the world's first
     comprehensive social-insurance system. The 1889
     Genossenschaftsgesetz codified the cooperative legal
     form. This Act extends the Bismarck institutional
     lineage to the productive-capacity and energy-
     security layers in 2026, on the operational chassis
     of KfW (founded 1948) under the Marshall Plan
     institutional inheritance.

(11) THE SOZIALE MARKTWIRTSCHAFT FRAMEWORK ANCHORS THE

     POLITICAL-ECONOMIC POSTURE. Walter Eucken and the
     Freiburg School Ordoliberalismus, together with
     Ludwig Erhard's "Wohlstand für Alle" (1957),
     codified the German postwar economic-philosophical
     synthesis that combines market mechanisms with
     strong social protection. The Authority is fully
     consistent with the Soziale Marktwirtschaft
     framework: it preserves German private property,
     German private enterprise, the German market
     economy, and the German private-sector productive
     base, while coordinating sovereign-scale productive-
     capacity activation at the Bismarck-lineage social-
     protection floor.

(12) THE COOPERATIVE AND MUTUALIST TRADITION IS LOAD-

     BEARING. Approximately 7,500 active Genossenschaften
     operate in Germany covering 22 million members. The
     DGRV apex coordinates the Volksbanken
     Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking network, the
     Wohnungsgenossenschaften, the Energiegenossenschaften
     (load-bearing for Energiewende citizen-participation),
     the Agrargenossenschaften, and the Konsum-
     genossenschaften. The Schulze-Delitzsch lineage
     (Volksbank 1850) and the Raiffeisen lineage
     (Raiffeisenkasse 1864) under the Genossenschafts-
     gesetz of 1889 form the institutional heritage. The
     Authority coordinates with this cooperative network
     for procurement, regional delivery, and the Civic
     Robot Corps regional coordination.

(13) THE COMPLETED ATOMAUSSTIEG (15 APRIL 2023) AND THE

     KOHLEAUSSTIEG UNDER THE KVBG (BY 2038) FRAME THE
     GERMAN ENERGY TRAJECTORY. The Bundestag completed
     the Atomausstieg on 15 April 2023 with the
     simultaneous shutdown of the last three operating
     German reactors (Isar 2, Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2).
     The Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsgesetz (KVBG, July
     2020) requires the last coal-fired power station to
     close not later than 2038, with coalition
     aspirations to bring the date forward to 2030. This
     Act respects these statutory frameworks. The
     Authority does not propose or reference any nuclear-
     reactor restart or new German nuclear-construction
     programme. The Authority coordinates the post-
     Atomausstieg renewable + grid build-out and the
     post-coal industrial-employment transition through
     the Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst.

(14) THE ENERGIEWENDE 2045 IS THE COORDINATING NATIONAL

     ENERGY TRAJECTORY. Klimaneutralität by 2045 under
     the legally binding Klimaschutzgesetz. 65 percent
     energy-sector emissions cut by 2030. 88 percent
     renewable electricity by 2030. 26.5 percent energy
     efficiency improvement by 2030. The Authority
     coordinates with the Energiewende as the live
     national energy trajectory.

(15) THE FOUR TSOs + BNETZA ARE THE GRID-COORDINATION

     CHASSIS. 50Hertz Transmission GmbH (east, Berlin),
     Amprion GmbH (west, Dortmund), TenneT TSO GmbH
     (north and central, Bayreuth), and TransnetBW GmbH
     (Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart) jointly publish the
     Netzentwicklungsplan (NEP) for 2037 and 2045 to the
     Bundesnetzagentur. The Authority coordinates with
     the TSOs and the BNetzA for grid-capacity planning
     under the Kohleausstieg + Energiewende trajectory.

DEFINITIONS

In this Act:

"Authority" means the Deutsche Bundesanstalt für Produktionskapazität (German Federal Productive Capacity Authority), abbreviated DBPK, established under Title I as an Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts under the operational coordination of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau.

"DBPK" means the Authority.

"KfW" means the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, the German state-owned promotional and development bank founded 1948.

"Bundesbank" means the Deutsche Bundesbank, the German central bank within the Eurosystem.

"BNetzA" means the Bundesnetzagentur, the Federal Network Agency.

"TSO" or "Übertragungsnetzbetreiber" means one of the four German electricity transmission system operators: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Amprion GmbH, TenneT TSO GmbH, and TransnetBW GmbH.

"NEP" means the Netzentwicklungsplan (Grid Development Plan) jointly published by the four TSOs to the BNetzA.

"KVBG" means the Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsgesetz (Coal Phase-Out Act) passed by the Bundestag in July 2020.

"Atomausstieg" means the German nuclear phase-out completed 15 April 2023 with the shutdown of Isar 2, Emsland, and Neckarwestheim 2.

"Kohleausstieg" means the German coal phase-out under the KVBG.

"Energiewende" means the German energy transition trajectory to Klimaneutralität by 2045 under the Klimaschutzgesetz.

"EEG" means the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (Renewable Energy Sources Act).

"Steuer-ID" means the 11-digit Steueridentifikationsnummer, the universal German personal identifier.

"BA" means the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Federal Employment Agency.

"BMEL" means the Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft.

"BLE" means the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung.

"DGRV" means the Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband e.V.

"BRKD" means the Bürger-Roboter-Korps Deutschland (Civic Robot Corps of Germany), established under Title III.

"KRTS" means the Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst (Coal-Region Transition Service), the BRKD programme established under Title III Article 10.

"Länder" means the sixteen German federal states: Baden- Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen- Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thüringen.

"Regional Delivery Unit" (Regionale Liefereinheit) means the operational arm of the Authority established in each Land under Title IV.

"Ordinary resident" means a person whose principal residence is in the Federal Republic of Germany for purposes of German social-security registration under SGB I, including all German citizens ordinarily resident, European Union nationals exercising their freedom-of- movement rights, and third-country nationals holding a valid German Aufenthaltstitel.

"At-cost" means production cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance calculated on the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency model under 10 USC Section 2484 (production cost plus 5 percent surcharge for facility maintenance), adjusted for German operating conditions.

"DARP" means the Deutscher Aufbau- und Resilienzplan, the German Recovery and Resilience Plan under the EU Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität (approximately EUR 28 billion).

"Grundgesetz" means the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland of 23 May 1949, as amended.

"Genossenschaftsgesetz" means the Cooperatives Act first enacted 1889 under Bismarck.

"Personal Productive Asset" (Persönliches Produktionsvermögen) means the entitlement conferred under Title II on every person ordinarily resident in the Federal Republic of Germany.

TITLE I. THE AUTHORITY

ARTICLE 1. ESTABLISHMENT

There is established the Deutsche Bundesanstalt für Produktionskapazität (German Federal Productive Capacity Authority, "DBPK"), as an Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts under the operational coordination of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, accountable to the Deutscher Bundestag.

ARTICLE 2. MISSION

The mission of the Authority is to coordinate German productive-capacity activation across German industry, German energy infrastructure, German agriculture, and German regional economic development under the per- jurisdiction-indigenous principle, in order to:

(a) Coordinate German private productive capacity at the

    scale required by the Universal Foundational Citation
    (A) replication-threshold transition;

(b) Coordinate the post-Atomausstieg renewable + grid

    build-out and the Kohleausstieg workforce
    redistribution under the Energiewende 2045 trajectory;

(c) Coordinate the Civic Robot Corps of Germany (BRKD)

    labour-deployment programme under Title III;

(d) Coordinate the Personal Productive Asset

    entitlement distribution under Title II;

(e) Coordinate the sixteen Regional Delivery Units under

    Title IV;

(f) Coordinate energy-security planning with BNetzA and

    the four TSOs under Title VI;

(g) Coordinate funding under Title VII with the DARP and

    KfW credit lines.

ARTICLE 3. GOVERNANCE

The Authority is governed by a Verwaltungsrat (Administrative Council) of seventeen members:

(1) The Vorstandsvorsitzende der KfW, ex officio, who

    chairs the Verwaltungsrat;

(2) The Präsidentin der Bundesnetzagentur, ex officio; (3) The Präsidentin der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, ex

    officio;

(4) The Präsident der Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft

    und Ernährung, ex officio;

(5) The Präsident des Statistischen Bundesamts (Destatis),

    ex officio;

(6) Four administrators appointed by the Deutscher

    Bundestag;

(7) Two administrators appointed by the Bundesrat; (8) One administrator appointed by the DGRV apex of the

    cooperative sector;

(9) Two administrators appointed jointly by the four

    German Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (one drawn from
    50Hertz and Amprion, one from TenneT and TransnetBW);

(10) One administrator appointed by the Deutscher

     Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB);

(11) One administrator appointed by the Bundesvereinigung

     der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA).

Administrators serve six-year terms. The Verwaltungsrat meets at least eight times per year.

ARTICLE 4. RELATION TO EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

The Authority does not replace, supersede, or absorb the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Sozialversicherung, KfW (beyond authorised coordination), the Bundesnetzagentur, the four TSOs, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, the DGRV cooperative network, or any other existing German institution.

TITLE II. PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSET

ARTICLE 5. ESTABLISHMENT

There is conferred on every person ordinarily resident in the Federal Republic of Germany, identified by Steuer-ID, a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Persönliches Produktionsvermögen). The Personal Productive Asset is non-transferable, attached to the Steuer-ID for the life of the holder, and ceases on the holder's death or on the holder's loss of ordinary residence status in the Federal Republic of Germany.

ARTICLE 6. COMPOSITION

The Personal Productive Asset consists of:

(a) An at-cost share of the Authority's coordinated

    German productive-capacity output in basket
    categories determined by Verwaltungsrat
    Rechtsverordnung;

(b) An at-cost share of the Authority-coordinated

    domestic electricity offering aligned with the
    Energiewende 2045 renewable trajectory;

(c) Access to the Civic Robot Corps of Germany (BRKD)

    service-deployment programme under Title III;

(d) Coordination with the Personal Productive Asset

    holder's other social-protection entitlements under
    the Sozialgesetzbuch.

ARTICLE 7. DISTRIBUTION CHASSIS

Personal Productive Asset distribution operates through:

(a) The eGK Krankenversicherungskarte as the primary

    distribution instrument, leveraging the existing
    universal-health-coverage distribution infrastructure
    operated by the 95+ statutory Krankenkassen under SGB
    V;

(b) The bund.de portal, BundID, and AusweisApp2 for

    digital-state access;

(c) The Bundesagentur für Arbeit for working-age

    coordination;

(d) The sixteen Regional Delivery Units for regional

    coordination under Title IV.

TITLE III. CIVIC ROBOT CORPS OF GERMANY

ARTICLE 8. ESTABLISHMENT

There is established the Bürger-Roboter-Korps Deutschland (Civic Robot Corps of Germany, "BRKD") as a public-good labour body operating under the Authority's Verwaltungsrat.

ARTICLE 9. MISSION

The mission of the BRKD is to:

(a) Coordinate German public-good labour deployment in

    German industry, German renewable-energy
    infrastructure, German agriculture, German regional
    economic development, and German public services;

(b) Provide structured skills development to German

    workers under the Universal Foundational Citation
    (D) competency-collapse response framework,
    particularly for workers transitioning under the
    Universal Foundational Citation (F) automation-
    displacement pressure;

(c) Coordinate the regional skills-pipeline programme

    with the Landesregierungen, the regional Industrie-
    und Handelskammern (IHK) and Handwerkskammern (HWK),
    the DGRV cooperative-banking network, and the
    Bundesagentur für Arbeit;

(d) Operate the Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst (KRTS)

    established under Article 10.

ARTICLE 10. KOHLEREGION-TRANSITIONSDIENST (KRTS)

(1) There is established within the BRKD the

    Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst (Coal-Region Transition
    Service, "KRTS").

(2) The KRTS coordinates the German coal-region workforce

    redistribution for the 2026-2038 build-out horizon
    under the Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsgesetz (KVBG),
    including:

    (a) Lausitzer Revier (lignite region in Brandenburg
        and Sachsen);
    (b) Rheinisches Revier (Rhenish lignite region in
        Nordrhein-Westfalen);
    (c) Mitteldeutsches Revier (Central German lignite
        region in Sachsen-Anhalt and Sachsen);
    (d) Steinkohle (hard coal) closure regions
        (Saarland, Nordrhein-Westfalen historical
        Ruhrgebiet);
    (e) Coordination with German private engineering and
        construction firms in the coal-region supply
        chain, through standard German public-procurement
        instruments under the Vergabeverordnung (VgV).

(3) The KRTS provides:

    (a) Five-year wage-floor coordination for German
        workers transitioning from coal-region employment
        to renewable-energy, grid-infrastructure, or
        Civic Robot Corps deployment;
    (b) Skills-certification coordination with the
        German vocational-training apparatus (duales
        Ausbildungssystem, IHK / HWK certifications, BA
        retraining programmes);
    (c) Coordination with the Landesregierungen of
        Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Nordrhein-
        Westfalen, and Saarland on local workforce
        integration;
    (d) Coordination with the Bundesagentur für Arbeit
        and the regional Agenturen für Arbeit.

(4) The KRTS reports annually to the Authority's

    Verwaltungsrat and to the Bundestag on workforce-
    integration progress and Kohleausstieg skills-
    pipeline status.

ARTICLE 11. BUNDESFREIWILLIGENDIENST COORDINATION

The BRKD coordinates with the existing Bundesfreiwilligen- dienst (BFD, Federal Voluntary Service, established 2011) and the Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr / Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (FSJ / FÖJ). The BRKD does not replace these programmes; it complements their volunteer-civic- engagement missions with the productive-capacity coordination mission established by this Act.

ARTICLE 12. REGIONAL DEPLOYMENT

BRKD deployment is coordinated through the sixteen Regional Delivery Units under Title IV.

TITLE IV. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNITS

ARTICLE 13. ESTABLISHMENT

There are established sixteen Regional Delivery Units (Regionale Liefereinheiten) of the Authority, one in each of the sixteen German Länder per the definition in this Act.

ARTICLE 14. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNIT FUNCTIONS

Each Regional Delivery Unit:

(a) Contracts on behalf of the Authority with German

    private producers, German private engineering and
    construction firms, German private logistics
    operators, and German private specialty manufacturers
    in the Land;

(b) Coordinates with the Landesregierung and the Landtag; (c) Coordinates with the regional Industrie- und

    Handelskammern (IHK) and Handwerkskammern (HWK);

(d) Coordinates with the regional Volksbanken

    Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking network and the
    regional Energiegenossenschaften;

(e) Coordinates Personal Productive Asset distribution

    under Title II in the Land;

(f) Coordinates BRKD deployment under Title III in the

    Land, including KRTS coal-region transition
    coordination in coal-region Länder;

(g) Reports quarterly to the Authority's Verwaltungsrat

    on regional operational status;

(h) Maintains a public regional inventory of contracted

    German private partners.

ARTICLE 15. COAL-REGION-HOSTING LÄNDER

The Regional Delivery Units of Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Saarland carry additional coordination responsibility under Article 10 (the Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst), and receive corresponding Verwaltungsrat coordination support.

ARTICLE 16. EAST-WEST GRADIENT COORDINATION

The Regional Delivery Units in the eastern Länder (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen- Anhalt, Thüringen) coordinate additional just-transition support reflecting the post-reunification East-West gradient documented under Universal Foundational Citation (C) and Universal Foundational Citation (D) as load-bearing for German population-health stratification.

TITLE V. COOPERATIVE AND MUTUALIST INTEGRATION

ARTICLE 17. RECOGNITION OF THE GERMAN COOPERATIVE

              TRADITION

The Parliament recognises the German cooperative tradition under the Genossenschaftsgesetz of 1889, as defined in the Germany Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act, including the approximately 7,500 active Genossenschaften with 22 million members, the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative banking network with DZ BANK as central institution, the Wohnungsgenossenschaften, the Energiegenossenschaften (load-bearing for the Energiewende citizen-participation model), the Agrargenossenschaften, and the Konsumgenossenschaften. The Schulze-Delitzsch lineage (1850 first Volksbank) and the Raiffeisen lineage (1864 first rural cooperative) are expressly acknowledged as the institutional heritage.

ARTICLE 18. COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT PRIORITY

The Authority shall apply procurement priority to Genossenschaft enterprises in contracted productive- capacity work, all other commercial terms being substantially equal. The Authority shall report annually to the Bundestag on the share of contracted work routed through Genossenschaft vehicles.

ARTICLE 19. ENERGIEGENOSSENSCHAFT COORDINATION

The Authority shall enter into operational coordination agreements with the Energiegenossenschaft network for distributed renewable-energy generation and grid-edge coordination, recognising the Energiegenossenschaft sector as a load-bearing operational pillar of the Energiewende citizen-participation framework.

TITLE VI. ENERGY SECURITY (CO-EQUAL TITLE)

ARTICLE 20. RECOGNITION OF THE COMPLETED ATOMAUSSTIEG

The Parliament recognises that the German nuclear phase-out (Atomausstieg) was completed on 15 April 2023 with the simultaneous shutdown of the last three operating German reactors: Isar 2 (Bayern), Emsland (Niedersachsen), and Neckarwestheim 2 (Baden-Württemberg). This Act does not propose, reference, or contemplate any nuclear-reactor restart or any new German nuclear-construction programme. The Authority coordinates with the post-Atomausstieg renewable-electricity + grid build-out under the Energiewende 2045 trajectory.

ARTICLE 21. COORDINATION WITH THE KVBG KOHLEAUSSTIEG

(1) The Authority coordinates with the Kohleverstromungs-

    beendigungsgesetz (KVBG, passed by Bundestag July
    2020), which requires the last coal-fired power
    station to close not later than 2038, with coalition
    aspirations to bring the date forward to 2030.

(2) Authority coordination with the Kohleausstieg

    includes:

    (a) The Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst (KRTS)
        established under Title III Article 10;
    (b) Coordination with the five coal-region Regional
        Delivery Units under Title IV Article 15
        (Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Nordrhein-
        Westfalen, and Saarland);
    (c) Coordination with the BNetzA KVBG auction
        framework;
    (d) Coordination with the four TSOs on post-coal
        grid-stability planning.

ARTICLE 22. COORDINATION WITH THE ENERGIEWENDE 2045

(1) The Authority coordinates with the Energiewende 2045

    climate-neutrality trajectory under the
    Klimaschutzgesetz.

(2) Authority coordination with the Energiewende includes:

    (a) Alignment with the headline targets of 65
        percent energy-sector emissions cut by 2030, 88
        percent renewable electricity by 2030, and 26.5
        percent energy efficiency improvement by 2030;
    (b) Alignment with the EEG (Erneuerbare-Energien-
        Gesetz) target of 80 percent renewable
        electricity by 2030;
    (c) Coordination with the Energiegenossenschaft
        sector for distributed renewable-energy
        participation;
    (d) Reporting to the Bundesminister für Wirtschaft
        und Klimaschutz on Authority-Energiewende
        coordination annually.

ARTICLE 23. COORDINATION WITH BNETZA AND THE FOUR TSOs

(1) The Authority coordinates with the Bundesnetzagentur

    as the German electricity, gas, telecommunications,
    post, and railway regulator.

(2) The Authority coordinates with the four German

    Übertragungsnetzbetreiber: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
    (east, Berlin), Amprion GmbH (west, Dortmund), TenneT
    TSO GmbH (north and central, Bayreuth), and
    TransnetBW GmbH (Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart).

(3) Authority coordination with BNetzA and the four TSOs

    includes:

    (a) Alignment with the Netzentwicklungsplan (NEP /
        Grid Development Plan) for 2037 and 2045
        jointly published by the four TSOs to BNetzA;
    (b) Coordination with the post-coal grid-capacity
        planning;
    (c) Coordination with cross-border interconnector
        development with Denmark, the Netherlands,
        Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech
        Republic, Poland, and Luxembourg;
    (d) Coordination with the offshore-wind grid-
        connection programme in the Nord-Ostsee.

ARTICLE 24. STRATEGIC ENERGY RESERVES

(1) The Authority coordinates with the BNetzA, the four

    TSOs, the Erdölbevorratungsverband (EBV, strategic
    petroleum reserve administrator), and the gas
    transmission operators (Trading Hub Europe / THE) on
    German strategic energy reserves.

(2) The Authority does not assume operational

    responsibility for strategic energy reserves; it
    coordinates with the existing operators on whole-of-
    government planning.

ARTICLE 25. RENEWABLE-ENERGY COORDINATION

The Authority coordinates with the German private and state-owned renewable-energy operators (RWE, E.ON, EnBW, WPD, EnBW Offshore, Ørsted Germany, and others) and the Energiegenossenschaft sector on the post-Atomausstieg renewable-electricity build-out aligned with the Energiewende 2045 targets.

TITLE VII. FUNDING

ARTICLE 26. NO NEW TAXATION

This Act does not establish:

(a) Any new German Einkommensteuer (income tax); (b) Any new German Körperschaftsteuer (corporate tax); (c) Any new German Umsatzsteuer / Mehrwertsteuer (value

    added tax) or change to existing USt rates;

(d) Any new German Solidaritätszuschlag (solidarity

    surcharge) or change to existing rates;

(e) Any new German Verbrauchsteuer (excise duty); (f) Any new German Vermögensteuer, Erbschaft- und

    Schenkungsteuer, or other German tax of any kind.

The Authority funds its operations through the channels specified in Article 27.

ARTICLE 27. FUNDING CHANNELS

The Authority is funded through four coordinated channels:

(a) Federal-budget appropriation by the Deutscher

    Bundestag within the Bundeshaushaltsplan annual
    cycle;

(b) KfW operational coordination credit lines under

    standard KfW Anstalt-des-öffentlichen-Rechts terms;

(c) DARP coordinated investment within the existing

    approved milestone framework (approximately EUR 28
    billion);

(d) At-cost revenue generated by Authority operations.

ARTICLE 28. REVENUE RING-FENCING

Revenue generated by the Authority's at-cost operations is ring-fenced for reinvestment in the Authority's operational continuity. Surpluses, if any, are remitted to KfW for application to subsequent years' Authority operations.

TITLE VIII. DATA, OVERSIGHT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY

ARTICLE 29. DATA PROTECTION

All Authority data processing is subject to the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / DSGVO) under the oversight of the Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

ARTICLE 30. PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTABILITY

The Authority reports annually to the Deutscher Bundestag through:

(a) An annual report to the Haushaltsausschuss; (b) An annual report to the Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und

    Klimaschutz;

(c) An annual report to the Ausschuss für Arbeit und

    Soziales;

(d) An annual report to the Ausschuss für Ernährung und

    Landwirtschaft;

(e) An annual report to the Bundesrat; (f) An open public report published on bund.de.

ARTICLE 31. BUNDESRECHNUNGSHOF OVERSIGHT

The Bundesrechnungshof shall audit the Authority's operations annually under the Bundeshaushaltsordnung, with audit reports published.

ARTICLE 32. BNETZA COORDINATION

The Authority coordinates with the Bundesnetzagentur on all activities under Title VI (Energy Security), with formal coordination protocols documented annually.

TITLE IX. CONSTITUTIONAL POSTURE

ARTICLE 33. CONSISTENCY WITH THE GRUNDGESETZ

This Act is consistent with:

(a) Artikel 1 of the Grundgesetz (human dignity

    inviolable);

(b) Artikel 14 of the Grundgesetz (property entails

    social obligation: "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein
    Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit
    dienen");

(c) Artikel 20(1) and Artikel 28(1) of the Grundgesetz

    (Sozialstaatsprinzip), as applied by the
    Bundesverfassungsgericht since BVerfGE 1, 97 of 19
    December 1951;

(d) Artikel 20a of the Grundgesetz (state's obligation

    to protect the natural foundations of life,
    foundational for the Energiewende 2045 trajectory).

ARTICLE 34. GERMAN INSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE

This Act is consistent with the institutional heritage of:

(a) The Bismarck Sozialgesetzgebung of 1883-1889

    (Krankenversicherung 1883; Unfallversicherung 1884;
    Rentenversicherung 1889), the world's first
    comprehensive social-insurance system;

(b) The Genossenschaftsgesetz of 1889; (c) The Marshall Plan / European Recovery Programme of

    1948 and the founding of the Kreditanstalt für
    Wiederaufbau (KfW);

(d) The Soziale Marktwirtschaft synthesis of Walter

    Eucken and Ludwig Erhard, codified as "Wohlstand für
    Alle" (1957);

(e) The Mitbestimmung tradition (Mitbestimmungsgesetz

    1976 and Betriebsverfassungsgesetz 1972);

(f) The cooperative founding lineage of Hermann

    Schulze-Delitzsch (Volksbank 1850) and Friedrich
    Wilhelm Raiffeisen (Raiffeisenkasse 1864);

(g) The German philosophical and scientific canon of

    Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm von Humboldt (Bildung), Goethe
    and Schiller (Weimar Classicism), Max Weber
    (sociology), and Alexander von Humboldt (natural
    science).

TITLE X. TARGET COMMENCEMENT, AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 35. TARGET COMMENCEMENT DATE

The Authority shall commence operations on 3 October following the year of the entry into force of this Act, the Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day) commemorating the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990.

ARTICLE 36. TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

(1) The Verwaltungsrat of the Authority shall be

    constituted within ninety days of the entry into force
    of this Act.

(2) The sixteen Regional Delivery Units shall be

    constituted within one hundred eighty days of the
    entry into force of this Act.

(3) The BRKD shall be established under Verwaltungsrat

    Rechtsverordnung within two hundred seventy days of
    the entry into force of this Act, including the
    Kohleregion-Transitionsdienst.

(4) Personal Productive Asset distribution shall commence

    within three hundred sixty days of the entry into
    force of this Act, with phased rollout across the
    sixteen Länder.

ARTICLE 37. REPORTING

The first annual report of the Authority to the Bundestag shall be published not later than fourteen months after the commencement date specified in Article 35.

TITLE XI. CONNECTED PURPOSES AND SHORT TITLE

ARTICLE 38. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the Germany Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act (Deutsches Gesetz über die Bundesanstalt für Produktionskapazität und Energiesicherheit).

ARTICLE 39. RELATED LEGISLATION

This Act is the German companion to the Germany Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act, drafted contemporaneously and filed at imran.theamanuensis.com/ historical-apoplexy/compendium. The two Acts are operationally coordinated through the respective Verwaltungsräte.

ARTICLE 40. CONNECTED PURPOSES

For purposes connected with the foregoing.

END OF ACT

This draft is prepared by Imran Cooper, The Amanuensis, as the German national adaptation in the Historical Apoplexy AD legislative compendium (Cooper, Historical Apoplexy 2025-2026, Papers I through X). Compendium home: imran.theamanuensis.com/historical-apoplexy/compendium.