page_title: Judicial review in Austria
section_title: Administrative courts
hierarchical_section_title: Judicial review in Austria / Review of administrative actions / Administrative courts
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Südwestecke der ehemaligen Böhmischen Hofkanzlei im 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt und davor das Lessing-Denkmal.Das Gebäude zwischen dem Judenplatz und der Wipplinger Straße wurde von 1708/09 bis 1714 nach einem Entwurf von Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach erbaut und von 1751 bis 1754 von Mathias Gerl erweitert. Aktuell (2018) beherbergt es den Verwaltungsgerichtshof. &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 1206 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: The European and Austrian constitutions endow the Austrian court system with broad powers of judicial review.
  All Austrian courts are charged with verifying that the statutes and ordinances they are about to apply conform to European Union law, and to refuse to apply them if not. A specialized Constitutional Court checks statutes for compliance with the Austrian constitution and executive ordinances for compliance with Austrian law in general.
  A system of administrative courts reviews individual-scope actions of the executive branch.
  Influenced by Hans Kelsen and a general local tradition of legal positivism, the statutory construction of the Austrian Constitutional Court relied mostly on grammatical interpretation from its beginnings in 1920 to the mid-1980s. In the decades since then, the court has increasingly made use of teleological reasoning. Much of the court's workload is due to – and many of its decisions are the product of – unique distinctivenesses of the legal and political framework it is operating in.
context_section_description: Judicial review of actions of the executive branch other than secondary legislation is performed by a special system of administrative courts. These courts are where persons, natural or other, complain about written findings and assessments (Bescheide), about officials making use of their authority to issue face-to-face personal orders (Befehlsgewalt) and against officials using physical force or threats of physical force (Zwangsgewalt). The systems hears complaints not just about action but also about inaction; Austrians can take the administration to court if it refuses to make decisions it is required to make, misses deadlines, or generally neglects its responsibilities.
  There are eleven administrative trial courts (Verwaltungsgerichte), two for each province and two for the national level. Verdicts of the administrative trial courts can be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof).
caption: Supreme Administrative Court
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