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According to the VfGH, your own procedure should clarify the details.
Vienna Justice Minister Alma Zadić (Greens) must send the “Ibiza video” to Committee U in its entirety. This was decided by the Constitutional Court (VfGH) in its decision published on Friday.
This is not only politically exciting (in addition to the SPÖ, FPÖ and Neos, the green leaders also went to the VfGH), but also legally. He welcomed “the final solution to this important yet unsolved legal problem,” Zadić said. The Constitutional Court emphasized that it should only have refused to release them if the documents were not even abstractly relevant to the subject of the investigation. But Zadić did not claim that at all.
But so far, the U-Committee has only received a partially covered version of the video and blackened transcripts of it. The Office of the Public Prosecutor for Companies and Corruption fears that otherwise investigations will be obstructed and personal rights will be violated. There is another solution to this, said the Constitutional Court: Zadić could demand a consultation procedure from the chairman of the U Committee. Then it must be verified which documents should be withheld. In case of disagreement, the VfGH could be contacted again, the judges said. (aich)
(“Die Presse”, print edition, December 5, 2020)
