§ 10(3),
§ 13(4),
§ 14(1) first sentence and § 14(2),
§ 15(1),
§ 19(1),
§ 24(1) first sentence, § 24(2) and (3) of the Federal Intelligence Service
Act (Gesetz über den Bundesnachrichtendienst) as amended by the Act
on the Surveillance of Foreign Telecommunications by the Federal Intelligence Service (Gesetz zur Ausland-Ausland-Fernmeldeaufklärung des
Bundesnachrichtendienstes) of 23 December 2016 (Federal Law Gazette
I, Bundesgesetzblatt page 3346)
the Federal Constitutional Court – First Senate –
with the participation of Justices
Vice-President Harbarth,
Masing,
Paulus,
Baer,
Britz,
Ott,
Christ,
Radtke
held on the basis of the oral hearing of 14 and 15 January 2020 by
J u d g m e n t:
1. §§ 6, 7, 13 to 15 of the Federal Intelligence Service Act, as amended by
the Act on the Surveillance of Foreign Telecommunications by the
Federal Intelligence Service of 23 December 2016 (Federal Law
Gazette I, page 3346), and by the Act to Adapt Data Protection Law to
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and to Implement Directive (EU) 2016/680 of
30 June 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I page 2097), are incompatible with
Article 10(1) and Article 5(1) second sentence of the Basic Law
(Grundgesetz).
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