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The German Environment Agency has developed a guide in English to provide a concise introduction to the German environmental administration for an international readership. The guide is divided into five sections: After the introduction in Section 1, Section 2 introduces the wide range of subjects related to environmental protection in Germany. This is followed by Section 3, which describes the array of instruments the German environmental administration uses in pursuing its goals. The administrative structure in the Federal Republic of Germany, especially the division of tasks between the federal level, the level of the (Bundes-)Länder (federal states) and the local-level are explained in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 provides examples of important procedures and instruments in administrative environmental protection.
Die öffentliche Verwaltung tritt in Evaluationsprozessen als Auftraggeberin, durchführende Instanz oder als Evaluationsgegenstand auf. Aufgrund der sehr unterschiedlichen Evalua-tionspraxis im Handlungsfeld und des Öffentlichkeitsbezugs, aus dem sich besondere Rechenschaftspflichten ergeben, sollte die Berücksichtigung spezifischer Standards wie beispielweise der DeGEval-Standards selbstverständlich sein. Gleichwohl zeigt zumindest die oberflächliche und teilweise anekdotische Evidenz des Beitrags, dass die DeGEval-Standards im Handlungsfeld „Öffentliche Verwaltung“ nur eine nachgeordnete Rolle spielen, vielfach sogar sowohl bei Auftraggeberinnen/Auftraggebern als auch bei Evaluatorinnen/Evaluatoren unbekannt sind.
The European Semester is an instrument for coordinating and monitoring the economic and fiscal policies of the EU member states. However, since the European Commission explicitly emphasizes the importance of the countries’ public administration for economic growth, it seems reasonable to assume that the member states’ bureaucracy will also be addressed within the framework of the European Semester. This article therefore examines the admi-nistrative policy ideas and reform proposals of the European Commission by analysing the annual country-specific recommendations addressed to all EU member states between 2011 and 2019 under the European Semester. Applying quantitative text analysis to all CSRs during the investigation period shows that the European Semester is used to a considerable extent to propose administrative reforms to the Member States. Out of the 466 reform proposals identified, more than half were related to either the management of public finances or the administrative structure in the member states. On the average (without Greece), each country received 17,3 reform proposals with administrative policy implications over the entire period. However, the differences between the EU member states are significant, as can be seen from the distribution of the reform proposals.