Determination of subject matter value for attorney's fees in constitutional complaint proceedings

The Federal Constitutional Court’s Second Senate, Third Chamber, fixed the subject matter value for the attorney’s activity in a constitutional complaint at 10,000 euros. This procedural determination, which is final and unchallengeable, resolves the administrative matter of quantifying the value of the legal services rendered in a constitutional complaint proceeding. The dispute concerned the monetary assessment of the case for fee calculation purposes, based on the court’s evaluation of the objective significance and the extent and difficulty of the attorney’s work. The decision relied on § 37(2) sentence 2 in conjunction with § 14(1) RVG (Law on the Remuneration of Attorneys), applying the principle that the value is set at double the statutory minimum unless special circumstances warrant a higher assessment, which the court found were absent here.