Karlsruhe approves restaurant closures through emergency brakes

Created: 05/10/2022, 09:42

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The federal government was allowed to close restaurants and other eating places in the third wave of the pandemic in spring 2021 via the so-called Corona emergency brake.

This measure was also constitutionally justified, the Federal Constitutional Court announced on Tuesday.

The constitutional complaint of a restaurant operator from Berlin was not accepted for decision.

Karlsruhe - (Az. 1 BvR 1295/21)

The judges had already approved central measures of the federal emergency brake in two fundamental decisions in November.

At that time it was about contact and exit restrictions and the closure of schools.

The new decision makes reference to this.

Formally, it is about the former catalog of measures of paragraph 28b, which was inserted into the Infection Protection Act on April 22, 2021 and remained in force until the end of June 2021.

The federal government wanted to ensure that the same measures take effect everywhere in the state as soon as the corona situation in a region worsens.

This triggered a wave of lawsuits.

There are now very few Corona requirements.

dpa