Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany)

Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
	€7.676 billion (2021)
Minister responsible	Cem Özdemir;
Agency executives	Ophelia Nick, Parliamentary State Secretary; Manuela Rottmann, Parliamentary State Secretary; Silvia Bender, Permanent State Secretary;
Website	http://www.bmel.de

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (

Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

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Organization

The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Cem Özdemir. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Hans-Joachim Fuchtel and Uwe Feiler. Beate Kasch 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