Constitutional complaint challenging administrative decision on grounds of fundamental rights violations and procedural arbitrariness; review of manifest unreasonableness standard.

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint, thereby upholding the challenged administrative decision and leaving the lower instance ruling in force. The case involved a dispute over the validity of an administrative penalty or permit denial, where the complainant argued that the authorities violated fundamental rights and proper procedure. The Court’s decisive legal basis was the constitutional doctrine that an administrative body’s interpretation of the applicable statutory norms does not violate the Constitution if it is not manifestly arbitrary or in clear conflict with higher law, finding that the procedural and substantive requirements of the General Administrative Procedure Act were satisfied.