First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016 2016, para. 35
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On 28 June 2016, the Government of Germany signed off on a draft law on the Federal Intelligence Service (the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND) that amended several existing laws containing provisions on the surveillance of non-German citizens outside of Germany. On 8 July 2016, the draft law passed its first reading in Parliament. It is expected that two remaining readings of the draft law, including the final vote, could take place as early as the fourth quarter of 2016.