Interministerial Committee

An inter-ministerial committee , briefly IMA , is a different administrative employees involved ministries staffed committee on an issue or a matter of a government . The establishment of inter-ministerial committees is an established mechanism in government practice in the Federal Republic of Germany to coordinate ministries and prepare government decisions.

The rules of procedure of the German federal government stipulate that the federal ministries involved must discuss a topic before it is presented to the federal cabinet . The lead department is responsible for “timely and comprehensive participation” in accordance with the joint rules of procedure of the federal ministries . In practice, the establishment of inter-ministerial committees - which are not expressly provided and regulated as separate organs in the rules of procedure - has established itself as a means for this. Such committees are usually set up by agreement of the federal ministers, more rarely by a cabinet decision. They serve to coordinate the ministries, but do not have their own decision-making powers. There are inter-ministerial committees from civil servants to state secretaries level . They can be formed on an ad-hoc basis or meet regularly and also exist across legislative periods. Cabinet decisions are usually prepared in such inter-ministerial committees, with issues that one level cannot regulate being moved up one level. These committees thus also serve to resolve conflicts between departments before the federal ministers involved in a question come to an agreement (see also Cabinet Committee ).

There are also inter-ministerial committees in Germany at federal state level.

Individual evidence

↑ Joint Rules of Procedure of the Federal Ministries - GGO: § 19 Cooperation between the Federal Ministries. September 1, 2011, accessed February 16, 2020 .
^ Everhard Holtmann: Political Lexicon . de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-79886-9 , p. 278 , keyword interministerial committees .
↑ Carsten Lenz, Nicole Ruchlak: Small policy lexicon . de Gruyter, 2018, ISBN 978-3-486-80054-8 , p. 100 , keyword interministerial committees .
^ Raban Graf von Westphalen: German government system (= textbooks and handbooks of political science ). Oldenbourg, 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-25737-3 , pp. 298-300 .
^ Alfred Katz , Helmut Reichel: Political administration in the federal states (= writings on administrative science . Volume 3 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1975, ISBN 978-3-428-43528-9 , pp. 206-209 .

[1] Joint Rules of Procedure of the Federal Ministries - GGO: § 19 Cooperation between the Federal Ministries. September 1, 2011, accessed February 16, 2020 .

[2] Everhard Holtmann: Political Lexicon . de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-79886-9 , p. 278 , keyword interministerial committees .

[3] Carsten Lenz, Nicole Ruchlak: Small policy lexicon . de Gruyter, 2018, ISBN 978-3-486-80054-8 , p. 100 , keyword interministerial committees .

[4] Raban Graf von Westphalen: German government system (= textbooks and handbooks of political science ). Oldenbourg, 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-25737-3 , pp. 298-300 .

[5] Alfred Katz , Helmut Reichel: Political administration in the federal states (= writings on administrative science . Volume 3 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1975, ISBN 978-3-428-43528-9 , pp. 206-209 .