Constitutional complaint challenging civil servant pension calculation: equality and property rights under the Austrian Pension Act

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint as unfounded, thereby upholding the administrative authority's decision to deny the applicant's request for a pension adjustment. The dispute concerned a challenge to a final administrative determination regarding the calculation of a civil servant's retirement pension, where the complainant argued that the application of specific pension regulations violated the principle of equality or the right to property. The Court held that the lower administrative body had correctly applied the prevailing statutory framework for pension calculations and that no violation of constitutional rights was established. The decisive legal basis comprised the relevant provisions of the Austrian Pension Act (Pensionsgesetz) governing the adjustment and calculation of pensions for former civil servants, which the Court found to be applied in a non-arbitrary and constitutionally permissible manner.