For large public contracts in Germany, Section 121 of the Act against Restraints of Competition long required the subject of the contract to be described so eindeutig und erschöpfend wie möglich, as clearly and as exhaustively as possible. A law to speed up public procurement took effect on 1 July 2026. It removed the word erschöpfend, exhaustive. The description now only has to be clear. The chamber of commerce in Erfurt gives the reason critics had put forward. For complex and innovative purchases, a description worked out to the last detail is often neither possible nor useful.