Small request
As a small request (even small request ) is called in German and some other parliaments limited to a few points question of a parliamentarian to the executive branch , such as a deputy to the government . It is an instrument of parliamentary control .
Country-specific details
European Parliament
In the European Parliament , according to Rule 117 of the Rules of Procedure (Article 117 GOEP ), MEPs can put "questions for written answers" to the Commission or the Council . Alternatively, the question under Article 108 can also be submitted for oral answer. Questions for written answers must be concise and refer to specific points. A distinction is made between "priority questions", which do not require detailed research and are answered within three weeks, and written questions without priority, which must be answered within six weeks. Parliamentarians can only put one priority question a month. The Oral questions there are two types: Questions for oral answer and inquiries for the regularly scheduled question hour .
Germany
In German parliaments, there are minor questions in the Bundestag and in the state parliaments , which are addressed to the respective federal or state government . The deadlines for replies by the government are between eight days (Hamburg) and six weeks (Hesse), whereby as a rule no extensive research is carried out. The answers are based on the facts currently available to the government. Small inquiries are mainly an instrument of the opposition, which also wants to control the respective government; often she demands accountability for certain actions or she wants reasons why certain measures were not taken. In addition, it can express the particular interests of its electorate, which happens ostensibly for electoral motives and is also one of the reasons why small inquiries traditionally occur more frequently in election campaign periods . The big question is more extensive, asks for a more detailed answer and often has to be requested by a political group .
Switzerland
In Switzerland , the small inquiry is known as an inquiry (until 2003 simple inquiry ). It is regulated for the Confederation in Article 125 of the Swiss Parliament Act and is also known in the cantons and municipalities. At the federal level, questions are only answered in writing and published in the parliamentary business database Curia Vista . There is no discussion as with interpellations .
Liechtenstein
According to Art. 41 Rules of Procedure for the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein dated December 11, 1996, the members of the Landtag at a Landtag session "can address brief oral questions to the government that relate to a specific process. The government is obliged to attend the same session to answer the inquiries orally or to announce the reasons for the postponement or rejection of the answer "(para. 1). " After the government has answered, the questioner can ask a short, factual additional question in the sense of a question of understanding. The responsible member of the government responds immediately " (Paragraph 2).
These verbal inquiries are also called small inquiries in Liechtenstein .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred G. Schmidt : The political system of Germany. License issue for the Federal Agency for Civic Education . CH Beck, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89331-741-7 , p. 155 f.
- ↑ Parliament Act, Art. 125
- ↑ LGBl 61/1997.