The Wirtschaftsausschuss is the Bundestag's standing Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, responsible for scrutinising and advancing economic legislation including digital-platform rules.

Which Bundestag committee passed the German STR data law in 2026?

The Wirtschaftsausschuss (Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy) passed the KVDG on 22 April 2026, with only the AfD voting against.Source: Bundestag committee record

When will the KVDG pass the full Bundestag?

As of 20 May 2026, the Bundestag has not set a plenary date for the KVDG vote. The bill cleared the Wirtschaftsausschuss on 22 April 2026 and awaits a full chamber reading.Source: Bundestag legislative calendar

Background

The Wirtschaftsausschuss advanced Germany's short-term rental compliance framework on 22 April 2026, passing the Kurzzeitvermietungs-Datenaustausch-Gesetz (KVDG) with broad cross-party support. Only the AfD voted against. The committee passage cleared the way for Germany's SDEP-compliant national data portal under the EU STR Regulation .

The KVDG vote was notably cross-partisan, with SPD, CDU/CSU, Greens, and Die Linke all supporting a federal data-sharing framework, testing the limits of Bundesstaatsprinzip reservations from Länder housing ministries. Under Article 70 of the Grundgesetz the KVDG cannot compel municipal registration; Germany ships the SDEP data pipe on day one with no obligation for registration data to flow through it.

The Wirtschaftsausschuss (formally the Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Energie, Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy) is one of the Bundestag's standing committees. It holds primary jurisdiction over legislation touching trade, industry, Energy infrastructure, and the digital economy. The committee conducts line-by-line scrutiny of economic bills referred from the full chamber, takes expert hearings, and reports recommended amendments before plenary votes. Its REMIT extends across both federal industrial policy and Germany's energy-transition law. Members are drawn from all parliamentary groups in proportion to their Bundestag seat share; the chair rotates by convention to whichever group has the largest share in government.

The Wirtschaftsausschuss received the StromVKG (Stromversorgungskapazitäten-Gesetz) capacity-payment bill after its Bundestag first reading on 11 June 2026 . At committee stage the Greens tabled an amendment requiring any plant that wins a capacity contract to commit to a hydrogen-conversion pathway. The amendment could force a redesign of the capacity-auction criteria and slip the target September 2026 gas-plant auction. Germany abolished its gas storage levy on 1 January 2026 with no replacement mechanism; the StromVKG is the government's primary response to the resulting spark-spread collapse that has made open-cycle gas plant commercially unviable at current power prices.