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The Greens want to overhaul consumer protection in Bavaria: more transparency, stronger legal protection, fair rights to sue and clear product labeling. Food inspection authorities are to get more staff and uniform guidelines. In the platform's view, consumer rights take priority over business interests.

The Greens want to protect shoppers better. Products should clearly say what is in them. Offices should check food better. They get more staff and better equipment for this. Advice centers should get more money. A new state center should protect data better.

The same guidelines for food and hygiene inspections are to apply across Bavaria, and the supra-regional inspection authority KBLV is to be strengthened. Soils and waters are to be monitored for the chemicals PFOA and PFOS, and microplastic pollution reduced. Consumer advice services as well as social, debt and insolvency counseling are to get more money and become more digital. The Greens want to merge Bavaria's two data protection bodies into one independent state center for data protection and information security with more staff.

The Greens want to make religious and philosophical diversity visible in Bavaria and give all communities equal participation. Students are increasingly to discuss questions of faith and values together instead of being taught only in classes separated by denomination. Participation requires a commitment to the Basic Law (Germany's constitution).

The Greens want all religions to take part equally in Bavaria. Everyone should be able to practice their faith freely and safely. Children should talk more about faith and values together at school. The communities must respect the constitution.

The platform calls the free and safe practice of religion a right that is not up for negotiation. The Greens want to oppose antisemitism, hostility toward Islam and other forms of religion-related discrimination. Religious and philosophical communities are to take part on equal terms in all areas of society. Religious education is to open up step by step to exchange across denominations.

The Greens want to give more support to civic engagement. Plans include a funding program for engagement, more training opportunities and more paid staff to support volunteers. Volunteer emergency responders are to be released from work more easily for training and exercises.

The Greens want to help volunteers. Volunteers help freely and without pay. There should be more courses for them. More paid staff should support them. Emergency helpers should get time off for training.

Volunteering is to become easier to combine with family and work. A dedicated funding program and additional paid structures are to support those who volunteer. In sports, volunteers are to get educational leave in addition to training. The platform justifies this with the importance of volunteering for participation, integration and social cohesion.

The Greens want every child to be able to swim safely by the end of elementary school. To that end, a renovation program for swimming pools is to be launched and school swimming lessons strengthened. Club sports are also to be supported, and e-sports clubs recognized as nonprofit.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim. The state should repair swimming pools. Schools should work with swimming clubs. Sports clubs should get more help. E-sports clubs should get benefits too. E-sports means competing in computer games.

The investment backlog at pools is to be cleared, teachers are to be trained for swimming lessons, and schools are to cooperate more closely with water rescue organizations and clubs. The platform also names the goal of sharply reducing the number of drowning deaths. When sports facilities are built or renovated, climate protection, accessibility and versatile use are to come first. For e-sports, the Greens want legal certainty and attention to youth protection and diversity. Organized sports are to be supported in preventing sexual abuse.