It is issued by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and published by Bundesanzeiger Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
)[2] In December 2018, the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKF) made its own portal with the content of the Federal Law Gazette freely available online, accepting a copyright conflict with Bundesanzeiger Verlag.
[3] A few days later, the then Federal Minister of Justice, Katarina Barley, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the promulgation of federal laws and ordinances would only take place electronically from 2022.
[5] On January 4, 2023, the first purely electronic edition of the Federal Law Gazette was published with an amendment to the Construction Site Ordinance.
[6] Since 2023, the Bundesgesetzblatt is published in electronic form, similar to the Official Journal of the European Union and the Bundesanzeiger.