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I'm trying to understand the quality of German regulation regarding clinical trials better.
It seems that back in 2016 we had a law that allowed a government agency to allow clinical trials even if an ethic commission voted against the clinical trial.
One newspaper article had a quote from the head of the ethics commission of the university of Munich:
Insgesamt geht es um eine Beschleunigung des Verfahrens, und die kann nicht im Sinne der Patienten sein."
Translated: Overall it's about speedup of the process and that can't be in the interest of the patient.