The heads of government of the federal states end their annual meeting of the Prime Ministers' Conference (MPK) on the Petersberg near Bonn at noon.
In the early afternoon, the outgoing North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) - who only took over the chairmanship of the MPK at the beginning of October - and MPK deputy chairman Michael Müller (SPD) want to present the results.
Like Laschet, the previous Governing Mayor of Berlin will move to the Bundestag in the coming week.
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Political correspondent in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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One of the main topics of the meeting was the fight against the corona pandemic and its economic and social consequences.
On the table of the prime ministers was a draft resolution agreed by the heads of the state chancellery on the further legal safeguarding of protective measures.
In it, the prime ministers insist that the practiced indoor hygiene standards - such as the so-called 3G rule, mouth and nose protection, distance, ventilation - are also fundamentally necessary in the autumn and winter months.
On Friday, however, the MPK can also resolve changed versions of all topics.
In the past few days, politicians and experts had controversially discussed a move by Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) to expire the so-called epidemic situation of national scope at the end of November.
Demands for transition periods came from the federal states.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder warned of an alleged legal loophole if it does not come to an extension.
The state health minister, Klaus Holetschek (both CSU), made a similar statement on Friday in the “Augsburger Allgemeine”.
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However, Spahn had already pointed out the possibility that protective measures could also be ordered at state level in the future. Experts also contradicted the Bavarian representation that with the end of the "epidemic situation" there would be no legal basis for further corona measures. The special protective measures listed in the Infection Protection Act would no longer apply if the emergency came to an end, said the administrative lawyer Hinnerk Wißmann, who teaches in Münster. "However, the federal states, which are already responsible for this, can continue to use the powers if the state parliaments decide." respective state parliament decides.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia brought two of its own - also previously agreed - draft resolutions to the MPK.
The first is entitled “Lessons from the Pandemic - Resilience of the State, Administration and Economy to Crisis”.
The common goal of all levels of government must be to strengthen Germany's resilience to crises in order to be even better prepared for something similar, it says.
Among other things, the paper recommends "establishing complete supply chains in Europe in the medium term in crisis and system-relevant sectors".
Europe is to achieve greater independence from the world market “by promoting domestic production beyond the health sector”.