Constitutional review of administrative decision: scope of judicial discretion and constitutional complaint admissibility

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint as unfounded, upholding the challenged administrative decision. The dispute concerned a challenge to an act of the highest administrative court, where the complainant argued that the decision violated constitutional rights; the material facts involved a legal review of administrative proceedings under the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court. The decisive legal basis included the competence of the Constitutional Court to review constitutional complaints under the relevant provisions of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law, concluding that the impugned measure did not contravene the Constitution and that the lower court's interpretation and application of the law were within the permissible scope of judicial discretion.