In 2016, GWUF submitted an OECD complaint against TÜV Rheinland together with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and other partners. The complaint detailed alleged failures of a report submitted by TÜV Rheinland on the Rana Plaza factory building in Dhaka some months before its collapse in 2013. In response, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs acknowledged that a reform of factory audits in Bangladesh's garment industry was needed.