auf DeutschWill the administrative court ("Verwaltungsgericht") promote an "area of freedom, security and justice" with a "guarantee for the principles of democracy and respect for human rights", which EU is building up according to Com 2002/0247 ?
Walter Keim, Email: walter.keim@gmail.com
Torshaugv. 2 C
N-7020 Trondheim, 4. February 2004
Administrative Court
Verwaltungsgericht
Kirchstraße 7
D-10557 Berlin
Case VG 2 A 85.04: Walter Keim vs. Federal Republic of
Germany:
Freedom of Information (including access to public documents) and
Right to get fair answers to Petitions (Article 17 Basic Law)
I am German citizen and apply for:
The complaint to UN on the lack of Freedom of Information in Germany of 18. April 20021 was not processed because:
"Domestic juridical/administrative remedies do not appear to have exhausted ... or showed that remedies would be ... ineffective."12
The constitutional complaint of 5. May 2002 2 was not accepted 28. May 20024 because:
.. in matters of petitions the way to the administrative courts is open. Therefore the complaint cannot be processed, because lower courts are not used sufficiently.
("Ferner dürfte in Petitionsangelegenheiten der Rechtsweg zu den Verwaltungsgerichten geöffnet sein, sodass die von Ihnen vorgetragene Petitionsangelegenheit mangels Rechtswegausschöpfung unzulässig wäre").
The section about amount in controversy will be translated later. The idea is to follow international rules (access free) and reach the ECHR easy, since there is no human right of access in Germany:
[Leider bin ich aus den einschlägigen Bestimmungen des Gerichtskostengesetzes (z. B. GRK § 13) zur Streitwertbestimmung nicht so richtig klug geworden. Da es das Menschenrecht der allgemeinen Akteneinsicht bisher in Deutschland nicht gibt, ist es für mich schwierig, da was sicheres zu finden in deutschen Gesetzen und Vorschriften. Allerdings hat das Verfassungsgericht folgendermaßen verfahren: Im Brief vom 21.5.02 http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/020521bvg.pdf wurden gemäß § 4 Absatz 1 und 2 der Justizvollzugskostenordnung (Verordnung über Kosten im Bereich der Justizverwaltung (JVKostO) Vom 14. Februar 1940 (RGBl. I S. 357) (BGBl III 363-1) http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/JVKostO.htm ) Gebühren vorgeschlagen. Mit Brief vom 10.3.2002 habe ich mir die Freiheit genommen vorzuschlagen lieber internationale Normen anzuwenden. Daraufhin hat das Verfassungsgericht am 4.4.2003 von einer Gebührenerhebung abgesehen. Nach GRK § 13 (1) "ist der Streitwert vorbehaltlich der folgenden Vorschriften nach der sich aus dem Antrag des Klägers für ihn ergebenden Bedeutung der Sache nach Ermessen zu bestimmen." Das Menschenrecht der Akteneinsicht ist für mich eigentlich gratis oder die Kopiekosten werden erhoben.
Die EU Richtlinie über den freien Zugang zu Informationen über die Umwelt (RL 90/313/EWG) wurde in Deutschland verspätet umgesetzt (Frist war der 31.12.1992; das Gesetz wurde erst am 15. Juli 1994 verkündet). Da die Umsetzung zu restriktiv war und versuchte mit hohen Gebühren das Einsichtsrecht zu behindern und damit hinter der Richtlinie zurück fiel hat der Europäische Gerichtshof auf Antrag der EU Kommission Deutschland verurteilt (Rechtssache C-217/97) Anpassungen vorzunehmen. Als Menschenrechtsaktivist würde ich es sicher begrüßen, wenn sich das Verwaltungsgericht da (wie auch das Verfassungsgericht) helfen lässt und den Kampf für Menschenrechte nicht durch hohe Streitwerte negativ beeinflusst, da ja dieses Klage erst beim EGMR Erfolgsaussichten hat. Da bei lege ich zu Grunde, dass sich das Verwaltungsgericht in seinen Handlungen vom Bekenntnis zu den unverletzlichen und unveräußerlichen Menschenrechten als Grundlage jeder menschlichen Gemeinschaft, des Friedens und der Gerechtigkeit in der Welt leiten lässt.]
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU gives Freedom of Information in Article 42, access to documents in Article 41 (2), the right to complain in Article 43 (Ombudsman) and the right to fair answers within reasonable time in Article 41 (1). The "European Codex of Good Administration" defines latest two months to get an answer (Article 17).
As European my opinion is that Germany should respect the fundamental rights of the Charter of the European Union. Unfortunately German administration abuses national sovereignty to deny fundamental rights of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.
The Committee of Petitions did not answer petition of 21.12.2001 1 with the question of human rights violations see Article 19 (2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)1 (BGBl. 1973 II S. 1534). This violates. Article 1 (2) Basic Law:
"(2) The German People therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every human community, of peace, and of justice in the world."
It is not in accordance with the acknowledgement of human rights, that the committee of petitions gave no answer at all to the question of human rights violations. The right to petitions is violated (Article 17 Basic Law). Obviously the right of petitions is worthless if you get no answer at all.
Article 5 (1) Basic Law on freedom of expression reads:
"(1) Everyone has the right to freely express and disseminate his opinion in speech, writing, and pictures and to freely inform himself from generally accessible sources."
Because the committee of petitions 27. February 20036 and the minister of Justice 16. October 20039 do not provide me with the necessary information I can not judge and fully understand petition petition of 21. December 2001 5 . The ministry of Interior denied access to documents appied for 4. December 2003. This weakens my communicative Competence, which I need in order to complain to the UN http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/un-complaint.htm, WHO, Council of Europe and EU 15 .
(...)
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 8 Article 19 (2), describes the human right of freedom of information, with has the rank of a federal law:
"(2) Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice."
None of the exceptions of Article 19 (3) are appropriate in this case:
"(3) The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
The report (UN Doc. E/CN.4/1999/64, para. 12) illustrates that the access to public is included in article 19:
[T]he Special Rapporteur expresses again his view, and emphasizes, that everyone has the right to seek, receive and impart information and that this imposes a positive obligation on States to ensure access to information, particularly with regard to information held by Government in all types of storage and retrieval systems - including film, microfiche, electronic capacities, video and photographs - subject only to such restrictions as referred to in article 19, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In Article 1 (2) Basic Law the German people acknowledges human rights.
The relation between International law and federal law is described in Article 25 Basic Law:
"The general rules of international law shall be an integral part of federal law. They shall take precedence over the laws and directly create rights and duties for the inhabitants of the federal territory."
(...)
In addition to Freedom of Information Germany violates the Human Rights freedom of opinion, freedom of assembly, and right to fair trial 11 and has been sentenced many time at the European Court of Human Rights.
A detailed substantiation why the legislative und executive power does not guarantee to always be committed to Human Rights and does not respect the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHRFF), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU is explained in the complaint to UN of 18. April 2002 1 and the complaint to the constitutional court of 5. May 2001 2 .
To sum up one must say that the Germany abuses it's
sovereignty to deny Germans the human right of freedom of
information. Therefore Germans are second class citizens in the
EU. Even worth: EU citizens, who move to Germany loose the human
right of freedom of information, which they had in the country
they come from. The mothers and fathers of the constitution wrote
they were "animated by the purpose to serve world peace as
an equal part in a unified Europe," (Preamble Basic Law), not the continuation of
authoritan pieces (as the only country in Europe): The
"Amtsgeheimnis" (official secrecy) as relict of
Prussian authorial state, which puts secrecy higher than
democratic participation and human rights of citizens.
This complaint is published here: http://wkeim.bplaced.net/files/verwaltungsgericht-en.htm.
Yours sincerely,
Walter Keim
Torshaugv. 2 C
N-7020 Trondheim
E-Mail: walter.keim@gmail.com
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