Constitutional validity of administrative offense limitation periods

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint, thereby upholding the contested administrative decision and leaving the lower instance judgment in force. The dispute concerned a challenge to the constitutionality of specific provisions in the Administrative Punishments Act (Verwaltungsstrafgesetz) regarding the calculation of statutory limitation periods for administrative offenses, where the complainant argued that the applicable law violated the principle of legal certainty. The court ruled that the legislative provisions did not infringe upon the constitutional rights of the complainant, finding that the general application of the limitation rules was permissible and did not contravene the fundamental guarantees of the Federal Constitutional Law.