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BVerfG, Urteil vom 05.05.2020 - 2 BvR 859/15, 2 BvR 1651/15, 2 BvR 2006/15, 2 BvR 980/16, W and ors, Final judgment, 2 BvR 859/15, 2 BvR 1651/15, 2 BvR 2006/15, 2 BvR 980/16, ILDC 3158 (DE 2020), (2020) Juristenzeitung 744, (2020) NJW, 1647, 5th May 2020, Germany; Constitutional Court [BVerfG]

Date:
05 May 2020
Citation(s):
2 BvR 859/15 (Official Case No)
2 BvR 1651/15 (Official Case No)
2 BvR 2006/15 (Official Case No)
2 BvR 980/16 (Official Case No)
ILDC 3158 (DE 2020) (OUP reference)
(2020) Juristenzeitung 744 (Other Reference)
(2020) NJW, 1647 (Other Reference)
Content type:
Domestic court decisions
Product:
Oxford Reports on International Law [ORIL]

Module:
International Law in Domestic Courts [ILDC]
Jurisdiction:
Germany [de]; Constitutional Court [BVerfG]

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 19 January 2025

Whether a decision of the European Court of Justice had been rendered ultra vires for not having identified the flaws of the decisions of the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) to implement a public sector asset purchase programme (‘PSPP’), and thus had no binding effect in a member state.

Whether decisions of the ECB to implement a PSPP were ultra vires acts because they did not satisfy the principle of proportionality.

Whether a PSPP constituted an ultra vires act, given the ECB’s failure to substantiate that the programme was proportionate.

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