Joint state planning department Berlin-Brandenburg
The Joint State Planning Department Berlin-Brandenburg (GL) has been responsible for regional planning and regional planning in Berlin and Brandenburg since January 1, 1996 . It is the state planning authority and, as the highest state authority, is part of both the Senate Administration responsible for spatial planning in Berlin and the Ministry in Brandenburg. The GL is the only supreme two-country authority in this area in Germany. The legal basis is the state planning contract. It provides for state planning to be organized on a one-level basis, as is otherwise only the case in Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland, with spatial monitoring being located in the subordinate State Office for Building and Transport (LBV). In the other territorial states, more extensive state planning tasks are also carried out by higher state authorities, state central authorities (administrative districts) or lower state authorities (districts).
With the exception of spatial monitoring, the GL thus covers the entire range of tasks that are customary in the state planning of the federal states: plan preparation and deviations from targets, safeguarding spatial planning (adaptation of urban land use planning, prohibition, spatial planning procedures), plan preparation (spatial planning cadastre, spatial monitoring see above, regional planning report), supervision on regional planning and regional development (EU projects, MORO). In addition, there are two instruments at the higher political-programmatic level: the model for the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region and the state development program with principles of spatial planning.
The “tandem principle” applies to the management of the department and the units. If the management is a Brandenburg employee, the deputy must be carried out by a Berlin employee and vice versa. A Brandenburg employee is responsible for the management of the department and three departments; the Berlin side provides the permanent representative of the department management and two department heads. The seat of the authority is in Potsdam. Further locations are in Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus. Each country bears the costs of its own personnel; both countries each bear half of the material costs. An administrative agreement regulates further details.
After the state governments of Berlin and Brandenburg announced their intention to merge the states in 1991, numerous authorities, institutions and courts were merged. In no other region in Germany is cooperation on public tasks as pronounced as here. The failure of the referendum on the merger of the states in May 1996 did not affect the institutional unification process, and there is now talk of a "marriage without a marriage certificate". The collaborations include: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB, Medienanstalt, Medienboard; Verkehrsverbund VBB, airport company, joint upper aviation authority; State Institute for School and Media, Social Pedagogical Training Institute, Institute for School Quality; State laboratory, State Office for Metrology and Calibration; Statistical Office; Specialized higher courts (Higher Administrative Court, Regional Labor Court, Regional Social Court, Finance Court - otherwise only the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony maintain a joint regional social court), Central Dunning Court Berlin-Brandenburg, Legal Examination Office; German Pension Insurance Berlin-Brandenburg; Academy of Sciences, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation; Special waste company Berlin-Brandenburg.