Budget Committee
The Budget Committee is a permanent parliamentary committee that is responsible for deliberating on the budget law and for monitoring ( parliamentary control ) of budget implementation .
In the Federal Republic of Germany , both the Bundestag and all regional parliaments have set up a budget committee (in some cases, as in Baden-Württemberg, also called the “finance committee”). The budget committee of the Berlin House of Representatives is called the Main Committee . In the Federal Council , the finance committee performs the function of the budget committee. For the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, see Committee on Budgets (European Parliament) .
German Bundestag
The budget committee of the Bundestag in the 19th legislative period is one of the largest permanent Bundestag committees with 44 members . The committee was constituted on January 31, 2018. According to parliamentary custom, the budget committee is always chaired by a member of the largest opposition faction.
The committee chairman in the 19th legislative period is the AfD MP Peter Boehringer . The main task of this committee is to advise on the Federal Budget Act. For this purpose, reporters are used who deal with the budget plans of each individual ministry, the individual plans. Their results serve as the basis for further committee deliberations. The budget committee issues a separate recommendation for each individual plan.
The budget committee begins working on the federal budget after transferring the budget proposed by the federal government, deliberation with general debate and final debate in the first reading by the plenary session of the Bundestag. First of all, all individual plans are examined in rapporteur meetings by the ministry, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Court of Auditors and changed if necessary. Then the committee deliberates. At the end of the deliberations, all the individual plans are fully discussed in a large adjustment meeting and combined to form the final draft budget for Parliament.
Members in the 19th legislative period
Chair: Peter Boehringer (AfD)
Deputy. Chair: Dennis Rohde
Chair of the Budget Committee
- 1949–1969 Erwin Schoettle (SPD)
- 1969–1977 Albert Leicht (CDU)
- 1977–1981 Heinrich Windelen (CDU)
- 1981–1982 Lothar Haase (CDU)
- 1982–1983 Helmut Esters (SPD)
- 1983–1994 Rudi Walther (SPD)
- 1994–1998 Helmut Wieczorek (SPD)
- 1998–2002 Adolf Roth (CDU)
- 2002-2005 Manfred Carstens (CDU)
- 2005–2009 Otto Fricke (FDP)
- 2009–2013 Petra Merkel (SPD)
- 2014–2017 Gesine Lötzsch (Left Party)
- since 2018 Peter Boehringer (AfD)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the German Bundestag from January 31, 2018
- ↑ Final debate on the first reading of the Budget Act 2020 , German Bundestag, accessed on September 13, 2019.
Erwin Schoettle (1949–1969) | Albert Leicht (1969–1977) | Heinrich Windelen (1977–1981) | Lothar Haase (1981–1982) | Helmut Esters (1982-1983) | Rudi Walther (1983-1994) | Helmut Wieczorek (1994–1998) | Adolf Roth (1998-2002) | Manfred Carstens (2002–2005) | Otto Fricke (2005–2009) | Petra Merkel (2009–2013) | Gesine Lötzsch (2014–2018) | Peter Boehringer (since 2018)