Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, BMJV)

Name of the organization

Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
(Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, BMJV)

Operational context

National
A cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany

Main contacts

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Website

Contact person
Legal representative

At the head of the Ministry is the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Mr  Heiko Maas. As a cabinet member, he participates in the political decisions of the Federal  Government  and  bears  the  political  responsibility  for  his  department.  The  Minister  is  assisted in his work by two Parliamentary State Secretaries and  two  civil  servant  State  Secretaries.

Mission

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection is primarily a ministry of legislation, also advising the other  Federal  Ministries  in  the  preparation  of  legislative  proposals. It drafts legislation in  the fields  of  law  assigned  to  its  remit,  these  mainly  being  the  fields of civil  law,  commercial and economic law, criminal law, and procedural law.

 

Interventions
  • Advising the other  Federal  Ministries  in  the  preparation  of  legislative  proposals.

  • Performing  the  scrutiny  of  legislation (and international agreements) drafted by all other Federal Ministries in terms of compatibility with constitutional law, international law, European Union law and existing  Federal  law,  before  such  draft  legislation  is  adopted  by  the  Federal  Government.

  • To be involved at the preparatory stage in the selection of judges for the Federal Constitutional Court.

  • To prepare the selection of judges for the three supreme Federal courts within  its remit – the Federal Court of Justice, the Federal Administrative Court, and the Federal  Finance  Court.