Constitutional validity of contested legislation under abstract review

Based on the metadata provided, the full text of the decision is unavailable for analysis; however, the case (B378/69) before the Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) dated November 26, 1970, likely involved a constitutional complaint or abstract review challenging the validity of specific legislation, as the court's primary function is to determine the unconstitutionality of federal or state laws and to resolve inter-state disputes. In such proceedings, the court would have examined whether the impugned norm violated the Federal Constitutional Law (B-VG) or other constitutional principles, leading to either a declaration of unconstitutionality (requiring the repeal or invalidation of the law) or a rejection of the complaint (upholding the contested provision). Without access to the specific operative order in the PDF, the precise party prevailing or the specific legal norm struck down cannot be definitively stated, but the procedural outcome centers on the constitutional validity of the challenged statute.