Trust body
The trust committee (also: committee according to § 10 paragraph 2 BHO ) of the German Bundestag approves the expenditure that is subject to confidentiality .
| Surname | fraction | function |
|---|---|---|
| Dennis Rohde |
SPD
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Chairman |
| Gesine Loetzsch |
The left
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vice-chairman |
| Reinhard Brandl |
CDU / CSU
|
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| Klaus-Dieter Gröhler |
CDU / CSU
|
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| Patricia Lips |
CDU / CSU
|
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| Eckhardt Rehberg |
CDU / CSU
|
|
| Martin Gerster |
SPD
|
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| Bettina Stark-Watzinger |
FDP
|
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| Tobias Lindner |
B90 / greens
|
The legal basis is Section 10a (2) of the Federal Budget Code (BHO). Accordingly, the Bundestag, for imperative reasons of security protection in exceptional cases governing expenditure that will be managed according kept secret business plans, the budget law gebungsverfahren to the approval of business plans by a panel of members of the Budget Committee (Trust) Panel addictive.
As far as its right to control extends, the trust body has the same rights as the parliamentary control body. Unless the Bundestag decides otherwise, the economic plans for the federal intelligence services - Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) - must be submitted by the Federal Ministry of Finance to the Confidential Committee for approval. The trust committee decides on the economic plans of the federal intelligence services as part of budget discussions.
Specifically, the tasks of the trust committee essentially consist in adopting the business plans for the three federal intelligence services in the course of the annual budget procedure while maintaining secrecy, and during the current year to monitor how the intelligence services handle the budget funds made available to them.
The individual budget titles of the intelligence services are not listed in the individual plans of the Federal Chancellery (BND), Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (BfV) and Federal Ministry of Defense (MAD). In the federal public budget, only the final amounts of these economic plans are listed for the responsible ministries, without any further breakdown.
The trust committee is elected by the Bundestag in accordance with § 2 PKGrG for the duration of the electoral term. The members of the trust committee are obliged to maintain secrecy on all matters of which they have become aware during their work. The chairman of the parliamentary control body , his deputy and an authorized member can take part in the meetings of the trust committee. This also applies to the other members of the parliamentary control body at the meetings to discuss the economic plans of the services and their implementation.
The trust committee is informed by the Federal Audit Office of the result of its audit of the annual accounts as well as the budgetary and economic management of expenditures to be kept secret. The constitutional principle of the budget public is limited in the field of intelligence services.
history
The trust committee was created in the course of the transfer of the Gehlen organization as a BND to the federal service. It met for the first time on February 22, 1956. Initially, Erwin Schoettle (SPD), Rudolf Vogel (CDU), Martin Blank (FDP), Wilfried Keller ( GB / BHE ) and Heinrich Schild ( DP ) were members.
Other members of the committee included Fritz Baier , Norbert Barthle , Steffen Bockhahn , Bettina Hagedorn and Gisela Piltz .
At the end of May 5, 2020, the previous chairman of the trust committee, Johannes Kahrs, resigned from his Bundestag mandate because the SPD parliamentary group had not proposed him for the office of the German Bundestag's defense commissioner. On May 7, 2020, Bettina Stark-Watzinger was elected to succeed Stefan Ruppert , who resigned his mandate on April 27, 2020. On June 18, 2020, the German Bundestag elected Dennis Rohde as Kahr's successor .
Web links
- Trust body. In: https://www.bundestag.de/ . Bundestag, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
- Information by the trust committee according to § 10a paragraph 2 BHO - report on the activities of the trust committee in the period July 2013 to October 2015 (printed matter 18/6400). (PDF) In: http://dip21.bundestag.de/ . Bundestag, October 15, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
- Information by the trust committee according to § 10a paragraph 2 BHO - report on the activities of the trust committee in the period from November 2015 to June 2017 (printed matter 18/12890). (PDF) In: http://dip21.bundestag.de/ . Bundestag, June 23, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Bundestag - Confidential Committee. In: http://www.bundestag.de/ . German Bundestag, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Wolfgang Krieger, Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]: Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Researching the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 356 .
- ↑ Explanation on Kahrs' homepage. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Bundestag votes on the composition of four bodies. German Bundestag , accessed on May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Dr. Stefan Ruppert, FDP. In: Bundestag.de. German Bundestag , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Bundestag elects Dennis Rohde in committees and rejects AfD candidates. German Bundestag , accessed on 23 August 2020 .