• Organization and working methods
  • Introduction
  • Beginning of the electoral term
  • Organs of the Bundestag
  • Plenary sittings
  • Rights of the Bundestag to participate in mixed institutions
  • Membership of executive bodies
• Members
• Legislation
• Information counter
• Databases
• Europe
• International
• Virtual tour of the Parliament Quarter
• Parliamentary Library

• Imprint and copyright

The Bundestag's structures, procedures, powers and rules outlined here may appear confusing at first sight. However, they have developed as a result of many years' experience and have proved useful. They are all intended to make what is at the outset an unstructured assembly of 603 Members into a parliament based on a division of labour which is able to work efficiently and economically.

• Organization and working methods - introduction
• The beginning of the electoral term
• The organs of the Bundestag
• Plenary sittings of the Bundestag
• Rights of the Bundestag to participate in mixed institutions
• Membership of executive bodies