The Federal Constitutional Court acts only upon application. The Basic Law and the Federal Constitutional Court Act provide for various modes of recourse to the Court.
Languages available
- Deutsch
- English
Types of proceedings
- Types of proceedings
- Constitutional complaints
- Organstreit proceedings
- Disputes between the Federation and the Länder
- Abstract judicial review of statutes
- Specific judicial review of statutes
- Proceedings for the prohibition of political parties
- Electoral complaints
- Preliminary legal protection
- Effect of decisions
- Costs
- Reaching a decision
- Allocation of competences
- Annual preview
- Annual statistics
- Legal sources
- Data protection in court proceedings