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Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Bundesrat of Germany
Phone:
+49 30 1891000

Address:
Leipziger Str. 3-4, 10117 Berlin, Germany

The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the national level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn. The Bundesrat participates in legislation, alongside the Bundestag, the directly elected representation of the people of Germany, with laws affecting state competences and all constitutional changes requiring the consent of the body. For its similar function, it is sometimes described as an upper house of parliament along the lines of the US Senate, the Canadian Senate or the British House of Lords.Bundesrath was the name of similar bodies in the North German Confederation and the German Empire . Its predecessor in the Weimar Republic was the Reichsrat. The political makeup of the Bundesrat is affected by changes in power in the states of Germany, and thus by elections in each state. Each state delegation in the Bundesrat is essentially a representation of the state government and reflects the political makeup of the ruling majority or plurality of each state legislature . Thus, the Bundesrat is a continuous body and has no legislative periods. But for organizational reasons the Bundesrat structures its legislative calendar in years of business , beginning each year on 1 November. Each year of business is congruous with the term of the presidium. The sessions are counted continuously since the first session on 7 September 1949: The session on 19 October 2018, the last session of the 69th year of business, has been the 971st session of the Bundesrat.
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