Parliamentary scrutiny reservation
The parliamentary reservation requires that all decisions that are of substantial weight for the community require direct parliamentary approval and may not be entrusted to the decision-making power of other organs of state authority.
Examples of parliamentary scrutiny include:
- Restriction of basic rights : basic rights standardized by the constitution can only be limited by parliamentary standardized barriers ( legal reservation ).
- Budgeting right : Parliament determines the budget for all branches of government
- Principle of the parliamentary army: only parliament may decide whether to use armed forces or to declare war
- Personnel decisions : the central organs of state power (Federal Chancellor, President, Judge) are to be elected by the Parliament itself (or expanded as the Federal Assembly); other personnel decisions require a complete chain of democratic legitimation that ends with parliament.
See also: Reservation of the law