Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig (SPD) announced that she intends to overhaul the German Administrative Court Ordinance. According to the ministry’s statement on Monday, the proposed bill would grant administrative courts more powerful tools to enforce decisions against the state and would lower the formal requirements for filing objections to administrative acts.
Hubig said that courts should be able to decide faster and that the judiciary should use its resources more efficiently. She added that individual judges would receive greater responsibility and that legal processes should be conducted more tightly overall. The aim, she explained, is that citizens and the rule of law will ultimately benefit.
The draft also calls for a more efficient deployment of judicial staff, allowing courts to hear cases with smaller panels more frequently. It would improve administrative courts’ ability to handle delayed submissions and frivolous claims, and it would permit objections to administrative decisions to be lodged electronically by e‑mail.