Constitutional review of 1970 Federal Budget Act provisions regarding public expenditure authorization

The Constitutional Court of Austria declared the challenged provision of the Federal Budget Act (specifically concerning a supplementary budget for 1970) unconstitutional and invalid, thereby prevailing for the petitioners who initiated the review. The dispute concerned the compatibility of a statutory budgetary allocation with higher constitutional norms, specifically regarding the limits of legislative budgetary authority and the requirement for precise factual justification for public expenditures. The court’s decision was based on the doctrine that the Federal Budget Act must strictly conform to constitutional principles of legal certainty and proper administration of public finances, ruling that the vague or unsubstantiated nature of the contested financial measure violated the constitutional order.