Research for sustainable fuels, quieter engines and a platform for the simulation and optimization of the entire aviation system in terms of its impact on the climate will be reinforced. Research into and the market ramp-up of synthetic fuels for climate-neutral flying will be supported, and contracting procedures in connection with the aeronautics research programme for the development and use of digital tools, process development, materials research and lightweight construction will be further accelerated and advance payments made possible. Germany is to be strengthened as an aerospace production base. The Coalition will develop a new space strategy, also for the avoidance and recovery of space debris. Measures against the abuse of cost reimbursements for cease-and-desist letters under the Unfair Competition Act will be analyzed. The group attribution in the Co-Determination Act is to be extended to the One-Third Participation Act if there is de facto real control. Corporate Co-determination: The growth of SE companies shall no longer lead to complete avoidance of co-determination (no “freezing effect”). General meetings of stock-holding companies online will be possible permanently, in respect of shareholders’ rights. The formation of companies will be facilitated by digitization of company law and by allowing for notarization by video communication also in the case of formation with contributions in kind. The EU Whistleblower Directive will be implemented in a legally secure and practicable manner, protecting whistleblowers from legal disadvantages. Rules on corporate sanctions, including the level of sanctions, will be reviewed in order to improve legal certainty for companies regarding compliance obligations, and to create a precise legal framework for internal investigations. EU merger control should prevent innovation-inhibiting strategic acquisitions of potential competitors (“killer acquisitions”). The Coalition advocates adoption of an ambitious Digital Markets Act (DMA) at EU-level, and its enforcement by the competition authorities of the member states. Market-dominant companies are to be obliged to ensure interoperability at European level and in national anti-trust law. The possibility of unbundling of enterprises at European level, irrespectively of abuse, is supported as a last resort in entrenched markets. The ministerial authorization procedure for mergers will be modified in a way to allow for appropriate legal action against a ministerial authorization, and for scrutiny in Parliament. It will be examined how significant, persistent and repeated breaches of economic consumer law standards can be sanctioned by the Bundeskartellamt in analogy to breaches of the Act against Restraints of Competition. German customs procedures are to be accelerated. Investment Agreements are to focus on direct expropriations and discrimination, avoiding misuse. The decision whether to ratify CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the USA) will be taken after examination by the Constitutional Court. Future EU trade agreements (with Chile, New Zealand, Australia, ASEAN, India, etc.) are to include effective sustainability standards using a dispute settlement mechanism. Multilateralism and the further development of the WTO are to be reinforced, including the renewal of the rules on market-distorting subsidies, the lifting of the blockade of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism and an alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Global Sustainability Goal. The Coalition will support an internationally harmonized minimum price for CO2, and an EU-wide border compensation mechanism for CO2-duties (or similar instruments), however in compliance with WTO rules, avoiding disadvantages for the export industry and Greenwashing, and within the existing emission trading system.
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