title: Conference of Ministers-President
text: # 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
  