Towards a consistent em-current operator from chiral EFT Stefan Kolling Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany In recent years the application of chiral effective field theory (EFT) to the few-nucleon sector has been very successful. Observables at low momentum can be described in a unified framework for the two-, three- and four-nucleon system with a rather high precision. In this talk I show how the framework of chiral EFT allows for the consistent inclusion of electromagnetic effects. I present our results for the one- and two-pion exchange currents at next-to-leading order and compare these results to currents obtained by other groups. I conclude by presenting recent results of our numerical analysis of the deuteron form factors.