Duties of the State Chancellery

Support for the Prime Minister

The State Chancellery supports the Prime Minister in the following areas:

Definition of political guidelines,
fundamental issues of the federal and state constitution within the framework of authority of the Prime Minister in accordance with Art. 63, Sect. 1 of the Saxon constitution,
fundamental issues regarding the territory and its division,
relationships with the federal government and other federal states, with a representative office in Berlin,
public relations work for the state government,
verification of ratified laws in terms of their constitutionality within the scope of their sign-off by the Prime Minister in accordance with Art. 76, Sect. 1, Sentence 1 of the constitution,
correspondence and communications with the Saxon Landtag,
preparations for cabinet sessions and the EMC,
general issues of state administration, and the organisation and fields of activity of the authorities and the administration structure,
pardons, in as much as the Prime Minister is authorised,
matters of protocol and consular work,
media law and media policy,
Regional Staff Committee,
matters of official decorations and the state emblem,
regional partnerships and international relations,
cross-border cooperations with the governments of the neighbouring countries Czech Republic and Poland,
support for the work of the European regions.