The Conference of Federal State Prime Ministers [1] is a committee formed by the sixteen States of Germany (Bundesländer) to coordinate policy in areas that fall within the sole jurisdiction of the Länder, e.g. broadcasting. The conference is not a constitutional body, therefore formal agreements between the federal states are fixed in a Staatsvertrag ( treaty/ compact).
The first meeting of the conference took place in 8–10 July 1948, preceding the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1954 it is a permanent institution.
The conference meets four times a year. The chair of the meeting is rotated on an annual basis among the federal states according to a fixed rotation:
- Lower Saxony
- Hesse
- Saxony
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia
- Baden-Württemberg
- Brandenburg
- Bremen
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Saarland
- Hamburg
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- North Rhine-Westphalia
References
- ^ Sector-specific Conferences of Ministers Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine