Procedural Separation of Constitutional Complaints Challenging Distinct Provisions of Hamburg Police Data and Constitutional Court Acts

The Federal Constitutional Court ordered a procedural separation (Verfahrenstrennung), splitting the constitutional complaint against § 49 of the Hamburg Police Data Processing Act into a new case file (1 BvR 2115/22), while the original proceeding (1 BvR 2634/20) continues solely with the challenge to § 8(12) of the Hamburg Constitutional Court Act. The dispute involved a constitutional complaint against provisions of Hamburg state law concerning police data processing and the procedural regulations of the state constitutional court, requiring the court to manage the review of distinct legal norms separately. The decision is a procedural order based on the court's internal case management authority to separate distinct legal objects within a single filing to ensure efficient and targeted judicial review, without issuing a substantive ruling on the merits of either statutory challenge at this stage.