Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development

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The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (PBnE for short) of the German Bundestag was decided on January 30, 2004 and was constituted on March 11, 2004. The establishment was preceded by extensive discussions about the form in which the German sustainability strategy and the sustainability policy of the federal government can be accompanied in the German Bundestag at national, European and international level. In contrast to the technical committees, which are directly assigned to a ministry, it is an interdisciplinary, cross-sectional task that is controlled at the government level in the Federal Chancellery. In addition, it is a long-term task that goes beyond the daily political disputes. The nine members of the first PBnE of the 15th electoral term have therefore agreed to take the decisions, if possible, by consensus of all parties represented in the German Bundestag. The decisions of the PBnE thus have a validity that extends beyond the legislative periods, as they are made independently of government constellations.

The PBnE must be set up by the German Bundestag every electoral term by accepting a cross-factional proposal from the CDU / CSU , SPD , Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . With this application his tasks are assigned to him.

The PBnE had 17 full members in the 18th electoral period up to 2017: eight from the CDU / CSU, five from the SPD, two from the Left and two members of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. The chairman is currently Andreas Jung (CDU / CSU), deputy Lars Castellucci (SPD). The chairpersons or speakers in the PBnE are Andreas Lenz (CDU / CSU), Carsten Träger (SPD), Annette Groth (DIE LINKE.) And Valerie Wilms (BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN)

The PBnE is supposed to accompany the national sustainability strategy of the federal government, the European sustainability strategy as well as the sustainability policy of the federal government at the international level and make recommendations. For this purpose, he reviews u. a. the correct implementation of the sustainability assessment in the legal impact assessment of the federal ministries, which has been regulated in the joint rules of procedure of the federal ministries since 2010 . He only checks whether the sustainability assessment was carried out as part of a legislative process. However, according to the appointment resolution, the Advisory Board is not entitled to an assessment of the content - i.e. the clarification of the question of whether a planned law is actually sustainable or not. The PBnE of the 18th electoral term has set itself the task of starting a material, i.e. substantive, sustainability assessment as part of the legal impact assessment; also on its stabilization in order to guarantee its control function seamlessly.

Others

At the end of 2012, the PBnE voted unanimously in favor of no longer giving Hermes guarantees for nuclear power plant projects abroad in view of the German nuclear phase-out (2011, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ) .

Web links

• Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parliamentary Advisory Board for Sustainable Development set up @ klimabuendnis-koeln.de (accessed August 7, 2014)
2. ↑ German establishment of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development , on dip21.bundestag.de, accessed on October 18, 2018
3. ↑ Controversial guarantees: Government wants to continue promoting nuclear power plant construction abroad. In: Spiegel Online. from January 19, 2013