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UMK
Abbreviation for Umweltministerkonferenz
In short and in plain language
The UMK is a meeting of the German ministers for the environment.
The German states agree on their plans there. The federal government takes part too.
Its decisions are not laws. But the states can use them to ask the federal government for rules.
Definition
The UMK is the German Conference of Environment Ministers, the joint conference of ministers for environmental policy. The environment ministers and senators of the federal government and the states are represented in it. It mainly serves to coordinate the states with each other and with the federal government; its resolutions are not laws.