Abstract: A circuit for sequencing microinstruction sequences in data processing equipment in which during the course of a primary sequence subroutine jumps are performed and subsequences are carried out and at the end of each, a return jump into the primary sequence takes place due to the control provided by a temporarily stored return jump address at a point in the sequence at which a two-part branching instruction is to be evaluated. The first part of the branching instruction characterizes a branching function which is to be carried out dependent on a decision which is specified in the second part thereof. The circuit includes a microinstruction storage from which microinstruction sequences are taken over depending upon the output signals from a central fixed-cycle control circuit fed into a microinstruction register and a recoder which is arranged thereafter.