Conference of Ministers-President
# 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:

* Lower Saxony
* Hesse
* Saxony
* Rhineland-Palatinate
* Saxony-Anhalt
* Schleswig-Holstein
* Thuringia
* Baden-Württemberg
* Brandenburg
* Bremen
* Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
* Saarland
* Hamburg
* Bavaria
* Berlin
* North Rhine-Westphalia
