Examples of Ressortprinzip in a sentence
This “constitutionally-enshrined principle of Ressortprinzip (department principle) grants federal ministries a high degree of autonomy in formulating and implementing policy.”219Another huge challenge is the matter of national caveats, which some authors220 refer to as restrictions and deficiencies.
Due to the Ressortprinzip as well as the deviating voting rules in the committees, majorities in the Finance Committee do not necessarily reflect the ones in the plenary.
The expert interview we conducted have confirmed the rigorous application of the Ressortprinzip in the Finance Committee.When determining its partisan composition, the Länder coalitions are hence of minor importance; it makes more sense to focus on the specific political party affiliations of the finance ministers.
Three factors give the health minister a central role: the Ressortprinzip (autonomy for each ministerial administration), the creation of a Ministry of Health separate from the Ministry for Social Affairs since 1991 and the longevity of two ministers: Horst Seehofer, minister for health from 1992 to 1998 and Ulla Schmidt, minister for Health from 2001 to 2009.
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In Germany, the term Ressortprinzip — the principle to respect the wishes of the department in charge — summarizes this tendency.
In Germany’s case, this universal dynamic is compounded by the weight of the Ressortprinzip, a departmental principle enshrined in the constitution.
The structure of the German state is so made that each ministry functions in accordance with the Ressortprinzip.
Paterson cites power sharing between ministries ( Ressortprinzip), and Article 23 GG granting the Länder rights in European Union affairs (Paterson, 2005: 273-75); Last, semi-sovereignty continues in the sense that the German state has to implement EU policies, the downloading side of Europeanisation or EU-isation, and is therefore a significant constraint (Paterson, 2005: 275-76).
German federalism emphasises the principle of ministerial autonomy and fragmentation, which is especially evident in the formation of EU policies and is called the departmental principal ( Ressortprinzip) (Knodt and Staeck 1999: 15).