UPC delayed again by constitutional complaints
14-01-2021
05-03-2019
This latest halt to proceedings follows the filing of two constitutional complaints against the ratification of the UPC on December 18 last year, the same day the Bundesrat (German parliament) unanimously approved the bill that paved the way for ratification.
Düsseldorf-based lawyer Ingve Stjerna filed one of the complaints against the proposed law, following the partial success of his first complaint filed in 2017, and the other has been filed by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure.
Stjerna’s first initial complaint disputed the legitimacy of the UPC and succeeded in blocking any further progress on the agreement for three years. In March 2020, the FCC upheld the complaint on the grounds that the adoption of the UPC required a particular majority of the Bundestag.