Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union

logo
State level Lower Saxony
position State representation
Supervisory authority Lower Saxony State Chancellery
founding 1991
Headquarters Brussels
Authority management Michael Freericks
Servants 20th
Web presence Homepage of the representation

The Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union is the State Representation of Lower Saxony to the European Union based in Brussels . It supports the Lower Saxony state government in implementing Lower Saxony's European policy .

organization

It is a section of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Section 306 - State Representation in Brussels) in the European Department. Each department is represented by a speaker in Brussels. With the general cross-sectional services, the state representation has 20 employees.

tasks and goals

The branch represents the state and represents the interests of Lower Saxony with the European Union and its institutions and observes developments in all policy areas at European level in the sense of an early warning system . To this end, the state representation maintains, among other things, intensive working relationships with the EU Commission , the European Parliament , in particular the Lower Saxony deputies, the Committee of the Regions and the EU Council of Ministers . In addition, there are close contacts to the other German state representations, to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union , to other national and regional representations as well as associations and non-governmental organizations.

The main focus of the representation's work includes in particular

  • the gathering and processing of information on European legislation and politics
  • the introduction of Lower Saxony positions in the decision-making process of the EU institutions
  • With events (e.g. conferences, panel discussions) of Lower Saxony interest, it presents the state as a business location and as a science, culture and tourism region on the European stage
  • arranging contact persons and contacts from the EU institutions and developing discussion programs for representatives from Lower Saxony politics
  • the presentation of the cultural and economic diversity of Lower Saxony in Brussels
  • the organization of measures for the European qualification of the state administration

The Lower Saxony House

Lower Saxony has been represented in Brussels since 1986, initially in a joint office with the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, which is now the Hanse Office . The state representative office has been active as an independent state representative body in Brussels since 1991.

The state representation has had its seat since 2002 in the so-called Lower Saxony House in the Europaviertel of Brussels, near the seats of the EU institutions and numerous other state representations - in the Rue Montoyer. In Lower Saxony House also joint events with the northern German states and other partners are performed.

The Lower Saxony House also includes the representation of Haute-Normandie , a French partner region of the State of Lower Saxony, as well as the representative offices of the Lower Saxony employers' associations , Deutsche Messe AG and Salzgitter AG .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nds. State representation: who does what? , accessed June 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ derwesten.de: How the federal states reside in Brussels , accessed on June 1, 2012.