The commissioner said Germany must rebuild the military conscription system.

The German Parliamentary Armed Forces Commissioner urged the country’s registration system to be quickly rebuilt in its annual report released on Tuesday for military recruitment.

Germany suspended mandatory military service in 2011, although the country’s fundamental law (de facto constitution) still exists. At that time, the German government also ended its registration and closed the 52 regional military offices that governed the conscription system.

Commissioner Eva Högl said there is now an “impatient need to reactivate the registration system fixed in the Constitutional Act.”

“A country that can respond to possible attacks with well-trained and well-equipped troops is a deterrent to potential aggressors,” Hoggle wrote. “This is the basis for this, it is about who can be asked for in tension and defense, their appropriateness and what qualifications they have.”

However, due to the previous demolition of the system by former Prime Minister Angela Merkel, the military is no longer available in the event of a conflict.

Hoggle wrote: “So there is no longer a comprehensive understanding of the situation at all ages.

She added that even “the potential obligations to mandatory military service and the Constitutional Act under Article 12A of the Basic Law remain.”

Incumbent German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called on lawmakers to approve military service models in recent months, but the proposal was put on hold due to the February election.

However, Hoggle warned that newly elected lawmakers need to urgently address the issue and make quick decisions on how to introduce a new military service system and for alternative non-military services taken seriously.