Federal level (Germany)

The federal level (also called the Bund or Bundesebene) is the highest level in the hierarchy of the federal state model [de] in Germany. In political science and legal science, the model is based on the idea of a federally organized political system at the state level. Although the individual federal states have their own state government [de], administration and jurisdiction, their powers are derived from the federal government, which is granted competence (Kompetenz-Kompetenz). Due to their lack of external independence, the German states are not (sovereignty) states in the sense of international law, but are subdivisions of the federal state endowed with independent state sovereignty and are subject to international law.