Conference of Ministers-President

The Conference of Federal State Prime Ministers is a committee formed by the sixteen States of Germany (Bundesländer) to coordinate policy in areas that fall within the sole jurisdiction of the Länder, e.g. broadcasting. The conference is not a constitutional body, therefore formal agreements between the federal states are fixed in a Staatsvertrag (treaty/compact).

The first meeting of the conference took place in 8–10 July 1948, preceding the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1954 it is a permanent institution.

The conference meets four times a year. The chair of the meeting is rotated on an annual basis among the federal states according to a fixed rotation:
 * 1) Lower Saxony
 * 2) Hesse
 * 3) Saxony
 * 4) Rhineland-Palatinate
 * 5) Saxony-Anhalt
 * 6) Schleswig-Holstein
 * 7) Thuringia
 * 8) Baden-Württemberg
 * 9) Brandenburg
 * 10) Bremen
 * 11) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
 * 12) Saarland
 * 13) Hamburg
 * 14) Bavaria
 * 15) Berlin
 * 16) North Rhine-Westphalia