Constitutionality of court fee provisions and equality before the law

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint, ruling that the challenged provisions of the Federal Court Fee Act were not unconstitutional and thus the complainant did not prevail. The dispute concerned a challenge to specific fee regulations applicable to civil proceedings, where the complainant argued that the mandatory payment of court fees violated constitutional rights or principles of equality before the law. The Court held that the legislative provisions in question complied with the Federal Constitution and that the fee structure did not infringe upon the constitutional guarantees raised, thereby upholding the validity of the challenged norms.