15th German Bundestag

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The 15th German Bundestag existed between October 17, 2002 and October 18, 2005. The 15th Bundestag was constituted by the 2002 Bundestag election , which took place on September 22, 2002.

The age president was Otto Schily from the SPD ( Federal Minister of the Interior ).

The 15th German Bundestag held a total of 187 sessions, with the last session taking place on September 28, 2005. After the negative outcome of the vote of confidence on July 1, 2005 , there were early elections for the 16th German Bundestag .

On October 22, 2002, the 15th Bundestag re-elected Gerhard Schröder as Federal Chancellor with 305 votes in favor, 292 against and 2 abstentions in the first ballot (see Schröder II cabinet ).

Members of the Bundestag


Parliamentary groups in the plenary session of the 15th parliamentary term
(until October 18, 2005)
     
A total of 601 seats

The 15th Bundestag had a total of 603 MPs at the beginning of the legislative period, and 601 at the end of the legislative period. The highest seat share had SPD with 251 seats (at the end of 249), followed by the CDU / CSU followed with 248 seats (247 at the end). In addition, the FDP (47 seats) and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (55 seats) were represented in the 15th Bundestag . The PDS politicians Gesine Lötzsch and Petra Pau were represented by direct mandates as non-attached MPs. Due to the resignation of MPs, there were at times a total of three non-attached MPs.

Presidium of the Bundestag

Wolfgang Thierse was re-elected President of the Bundestag in the first session with 357 votes in favor, 219 against and 20 abstentions. The vice-presidents were Susanne Kastner (SPD), Norbert Lammert (CDU), Hermann Otto Solms (FDP) and Antje Vollmer (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen).

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Laws

A total of 643 legislative initiatives were introduced into the Bundestag, of which 320 are based on government bills, 112 on initiatives by the Bundesrat and 211 on initiatives by the Bundestag. A total of 400 laws were passed by the Bundestag during the 15th legislative period and 385 laws were promulgated.

The most important undertaking of the 15th German Bundestag was Agenda 2010 , which carried out far-reaching reforms of the social system and labor market and which resulted in clear criticism. The laws in this project included Hartz III (from January 2004) and Hartz IV (from January 2005) with which the Federal Employment Office was converted into a Federal Employment Agency and the establishment of unemployment benefit II . The previous laws Hartz I and Hartz II , which came into force on January 1, 2003, regulated mini-jobs and the concept of the Ich-AG .

On May 12, 2005 the Bundestag adopted the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe with 95.8% in its 175th session . With the “Act on the Disclosure of Management Board Remuneration ” of August 3, 2005, the publication of the management board remuneration of listed stock corporations in the remuneration register became mandatory. The Immigration Act was passed on July 1, 2004 , after it had already been passed in 2002, although at that time the Federal Constitutional Court declared the Federal Council vote to be invalid. In 2003 the law failed in the vote in the Federal Council and was then revised and passed in 2004. The law regulates immigration to the Federal Republic of Germany anew. The statutory health insurance modernization law of November 14, 2003 introduced the practice fee , which was abolished in 2012 and no longer exists since January 1, 2013. On June 18, 2004, the “Law on the Introduction of Subsequent Preventive Detention” was passed in the Bundestag, which introduced subsequent preventive detention and in 2011 was declared unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court .

Committees

The 15th Bundestag had 21 standing committees. In total, these met in 1841 meetings, of which 1562 were committee meetings and 279 were subcommittee meetings.

Parliamentary control

Inquiries, current hours and surveys

There were a total of 65 large inquiries and 797 small inquiries during the 15th Bundestag . In addition, there were 71 current hours and 42 surveys of the federal government .

Committees of inquiry

During the legislative period of the 15th Bundestag, there were two committees of inquiry .

1. Committee of Inquiry

On December 20, 2002, the 1st Committee of Inquiry, also known as the “Election Fraud Investigation Committee”, was set up. Between December 20, 2002 and July 3, 2003, 32 meetings were held to clarify “whether and to what extent members of the Federal Government, in particular Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel , Federal Minister Ulla Schmidt and the then Labor and Social Affairs Minister Walter Riester , and Parliamentary State Secretaries in 2002 Bundestag and public regarding the situation of the federal budget, the financial situation of the statutory health and pension insurance as well as compliance with the stability criteria of the EC Treaty and the European Stability and Growth Pact by the federal government before the federal election on 22nd . Have informed incorrectly or incompletely in September 2002 ”.

The committee consisted of five members of the SPD ( Klaus Uwe Benneter , Frank Hofmann , Christine Lambrecht , Ortwin Runde , Dieter Wiefelspütz ), four members of the CDU / CSU ( Peter Altmaier , Hans-Peter Friedrich , Hans-Joachim Fuchtel , Jürgen Gehb ) and one member each of the FDP ( Hans-Joachim Otto ) and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ( Jerzy Montag ). The chairman was Klaus Uwe Benneter.

The final report of the committee of inquiry is 288 pages long and was published on November 24, 2003.

2. Committee of Inquiry

The 2nd Committee of Inquiry was set up on December 17, 2004 and was called "Visa Policy Security Risk". It was about the causes of the abuse in the issuing of visas in connection with the visa affair . Between December 17, 2004 and August 30, 2005, 32 meetings were held.

The committee consisted of six members of the SPD ( Sebastian Edathy , Michael Hartmann , Monika Heubaum , Bärbel Kofler , Volker Neumann , Olaf Scholz ), five members of the CDU / CSU ( Clemens Binninger , Jürgen Gehb , Reinhard Grindel , Michaela Noll , Hans-Peter Uhl ) and one member of the FDP ( Hellmut Königshaus ) of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (Jerzy Montag). The chairman was Hans-Peter Uhl. Eckart von Klaeden replaced Jürgen Gehb on January 25, 2005, between April 27 and May 10, 2005 Swen Schulz took over the duties of Sebastian Edathy and on July 14, Monika Heubaum was replaced by Barbara Wittig .

The final report of the committee of inquiry is 488 pages long and was published on August 30, 2005.

Special sessions

During the 15th electoral period, a special meeting was held at the request of the parliamentary groups of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, the 187th meeting on September 28, 2005.

The 187th meeting dealt with the “continuation of the participation of armed German forces in the deployment of an international security support force in Afghanistan under the leadership of NATO”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 15/1 (PDF; 294 kB), accessed on October 3, 2013.
  2. ^ German Bundestag: Minutes of the plenary 16/1 (PDF; 1.1 MB), accessed on October 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ German Bundestag plenary proceedings 15/187 (PDF; 472 kB) retrieved on October 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ 10.1 Statistics on legislation. (PDF; 375 kB) Bills submitted to the Bundestag, broken down by initiator. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, September 26, 2014, p. 4 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 10.1 Statistics on legislation. (PDF; 375 kB) Passed laws, broken down by initiator. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, September 26, 2014, p. 5 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 10.1 Statistics on legislation. (PDF; 375 kB) Announced laws, broken down by initiator. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, September 26, 2014, p. 7 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c episode 15: Red-Green and the Agenda 2010 (2002-2005). In: bundestag.de. German Bundestag, accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  8. ^ German Bundestag: Session 115 on June 18, 2004 (plenary minutes 15/115) (PDF; 1.1 MB), accessed on October 17, 2013
  9. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court: Press release No. 31/2011 of May 4, 2011 , accessed on October 17, 2013
  10. ↑ 8.1 Statistics on committee activity - overview. (PDF; 345 kB) In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, May 19, 2016, p. 1 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  11. ↑ 11.1 Inquiries. (PDF; 890 kB) Number of inquiries received, broken down by political group. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, February 9, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ 11.2 Current hours. (PDF; 249 kB) Statistical overview. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, August 13, 2014, p. 1 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  13. ↑ 11.3 Government survey. (PDF; 124 kB) Statistical overview of the number of government surveys. In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, December 13, 2013, p. 1 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  14. ↑ a b c d 8.9 Committees of inquiry. (PDF; 739 kB) Tabular overview of the committees of inquiry - 13th electoral term (1994–1998). In: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, January 5, 2017, p. 9 , accessed on June 15, 2017 .
  15. ↑ German Bundestag Printed Matter 15/125 (PDF; 168 kB), December 2, 2002. Retrieved on October 3, 2013
  16. ↑ a b German Bundestag: Decision recommendation and report of the 1st committee of inquiry according to Article 44 of the Basic Law (printed matter 15/2100) (PDF; 2.9 MB), November 24, 2003, accessed on October 3, 2013.
  17. ↑ Recommended resolution and report. (PDF; 3.0 MB) of the 2nd committee of inquiry according to Article 44 of the Basic Law. German Bundestag, September 2, 2005, p. 34 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .
  18. ↑ German Bundestag: Recommendation for a resolution and report of the 2nd committee of inquiry under Article 44 of the Basic Law (Printed matter 15/5975) (PDF; 3.2 MB), August 30, 2005, accessed on October 3, 2013.
  19. ↑ a b 7.4 Special Sessions. (PDF; 203 kB) In: Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1990 to 2010. German Bundestag, October 20, 2015, p. 6 , accessed on June 16, 2017 .

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