ABSTRACT
To be distinguished are so-called ‘selbständige Bundesoberbehörden’ (independent upper federal authorities) and the ‘(bundesunmittelbare) Körperschaften und Anstalten des öffentlichen Rechts’ (public corporations and institutions under the direct control of the ‘Bund’), which can both be formed under Article 87(iii) GG, as means of indirect state administration (‘mittelbare Staatsverwaltung’), in such areas, in which the ‘Bund’ has (federal) legislative competence.2
