In 2013, the NSU Committee of Inquiry of the German Bundestag adopted recommendations for the police, judiciary, constitution protection authority and the confidants of the security services. The recommendations of the NSU Committee of Inquiry provide important impulses for improvements in the work of state authorities and their cooperation regarding the fight against right-wing extremism, terrorism and politically motivated violence, and therefore also indirectly for the investigation work on hate crime.

The Federal Government has worked to implement these recommendations. The German Bundestag has passed the law on the implementation of the recommendations of the NSU Committee of Inquiry, which entered into force on 1 August 2015. Already in 2008, an "EU Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law" has been approved. Since the existing legislation in Germany was considered sufficient for the sanctioning of hate crime by the Federal Government, nothing was changed until the NSU Inquiry Committee issued its report with the recommendations.

The changes in the law are intended to provide a basis for a more targeted fight against hate crime. From now on the courts are obliged to expressly take into account racist, xenophobic or other inhumane motives of an offender as aggravating factors for the purpose of sentencing. In addition, the police and prosecutors should pay attention in their investigations to the motivation of the suspects in order to detect hate crime.

The law also provides for the Attorney General to be involved in ongoing investigations at an earlier stage. This is one of the consequences of the parliamentary committee of inquiry on the failures of the security authorities in the murder series of the NSU terror cell.