Article 65 of the Basic Law: Über Meinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen den Bundesministern entscheidet die Bundesregierung. The federal government decides disagreements between federal ministers. Under its rules of procedure, the cabinet decides by majority. On 27 November 2017 Germany voted in Brussels for renewing the approval of the weedkiller glyphosate, on the decision of the agriculture minister, Christian Schmidt. The environment minister, Barbara Hendricks, opposed it. Under the government’s rules of procedure, Germany should have abstained. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the vote did not match the instructions the federal government had worked out.