Constitutional complaint filing deadline: filing date for complaints misaddressed and later forwarded

The Constitutional Court ruled that a constitutional complaint filed in an envelope addressed to a different authority or court and subsequently forwarded to the Court is not deemed filed on the date of postage, but only on the date of actual receipt by the Court, thereby rejecting the complainant's argument that the filing was timely under the statutory deadline. The dispute centered on procedural admissibility and the calculation of filing deadlines for constitutional complaints regarding the interpretation of Article 144, Paragraph 1 of the Federal Constitutional Law (B-VG). The decisive legal doctrine established is that for complaints involving misdirected initial postage, the effective date of filing is determined by the date of ingress at the Constitutional Court, not the date of initial postal submission, superseding earlier interpretations and rendering the specific complaint inadmissible if it arrived outside the prescribed period.