Being from Germany I never heard about government based security checks. IT-wise our government doesn't make a very competent impression. Do you have any background info on this?
The functions of the BSI are explained in English here [1] based on the following law [2]. I guess initiatives such as informing about the NTP problem fall into what is listed under §3.2.
[1] https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/TheBSI/Functions/functions_node.h...
[2] https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/BSI/bsig...
Example: hetzner.