Committee of Inquiry Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law regulating the law of the German Bundestag's committees of inquiry |
| Short title: | Committee of Inquiry Act |
| Abbreviation: | PUAG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | State organization law |
| References : | 1101-10 |
| Issued on: | June 19, 2001 ( BGBl. I p. 1142 ) |
| Entry into force on: | June 26, 2001 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 4 para. 1 G of May 5, 2004 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 718, 833 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
July 1, 2004 (Art. 8 G of May 5, 2004) |
| GESTA : | B037, B042 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Investigation Committee Act (PUAG) is a German federal law that elaborates on Article 44 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (GG). Article 44 of the Basic Law states that the Bundestag is entitled (and at the request of a quarter of its members obliged) to set up a parliamentary committee of inquiry (PUA) (Article 44, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 of the Basic Law; this corresponds to Section 1, Paragraph 1 of the PUAG).
The PUAG contains more detailed regulations on the competencies, composition and procedures of investigative committees, for example on the public, on security and on official secrecy (§§ 14 ff. PUAG).
literature
- Paul J. Faith, Lars Brocker: The right of the parliamentary investigation committees in the federal and state levels. A manual . 3. Edition. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-452-28575-1 .
- Ute Mager: The new Federal Investigation Committee Act - Parliamentary organization of control through publicity . In: The State . Journal for state theory and constitutional history, German and European public law . 41 Vol., 2002, pp. 597-615.
- Paul J. Glaube, Lars Brocker: "PUAG law regulating the law of the investigative committees of the German Bundestag, commentary". Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-452-27564-6
