Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany)

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Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Agency overview
Formed	1949
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Rochusstr. 1, 53123 Bonn
Employees	920 (Feb. 2010)
Annual budget	€7.676 billion (2021)[1]
Minister responsible	Julia Klöckner
Agency executives	Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, Parliamentary State Secretary Uwe Feiler, Parliamentary State Secretary , Permanent State Secretary
Website	http://www.bmel.de

The BMEL headquarters in Bonn, Germany

BMEL offices on Wilhelmstraße, Berlin

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (German: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft), abbreviated BMEL, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its primary headquarters are located in Bonn with a secondary office in Berlin. From 1949 to 2001 it was known as the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (German: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten). Through an organizational order by the German Chancellor on 22 January 2001, it became the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture after the Consumer protection function was transferred from the Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit). The name Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was adopted on 22 November 2005 simply to alphabetize its functional parts in the German language. Due to the political restructurings of the in December 2013 the division "Consumer Protection" was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

Organization[]

The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Julia Klöckner. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Hans-Joachim Fuchtel and Uwe Feiler. is the Permanent State Secretary.^[2] In addition to the Ministry Management (including management staff), it consists of eight departments (as of September 2020):^[3]

• Department 1: Central Division
• Department 2: Consumer health protection, nutrition, product safety
• Department 3: Food safety, animal health
• Department 4: Agricultural markets, food industry, export
• Department 5: Forests, sustainability, renewable raw materials
• Department 6: EU affairs, international cooperation, fisheries
• Department 7: Agricultural production, horticulture, agricultural policy
• Department 8: Rural development, digital innovation

Agencies[]

Under the auspices of the BMEL are various Federal agencies, legally independent institutions under public law and government research institutes:

• Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
• Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
• Federal Office of Plant Varieties
• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
• Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
• Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
• Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries
• Agency for Renewable Resources

Federal Ministers[]

See also[]

• List of Federal Ministers of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany)
• Julius Kühn-Institut
• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)

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