f) Cooperation with foreign intelligence services
8. Transparency, internal monitoring and external oversight
II. The constitutional complaint

26
30
33

1. Personal circumstances of the complainants

34

2. Submissions on whether the complainants are affected

36

3. Fundamental rights protection of persons acting on behalf of legal
entities

38

4. Fundamental rights protection of foreigners in other countries

39

5. Formal and substantive unconstitutionality of the challenged provisions

40

III. Statements

42

1. Federal Government

43

a) Significance of the surveillance of foreign telecommunications

44

b) Inadmissibility of the constitutional complaint

45

c) Complainants cannot invoke fundamental rights

46

d) Substantive constitutionality of the challenged provisions

49

2. Bavarian Land Government

50

3. Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

51

4. Federal Administrative Court

53

IV. List of questions and oral hearing

54

B. Admissibility of the constitutional complaint

56

I. Issues challenged with the application

57

II. Standing

58

1. Substantive scope of protection

59

2. Possibility of the applicability of fundamental rights abroad

61

3. Personal scope of protection in relation to foreign legal entities (com- 62
plainant no. 1)
a) Possibility of extending applicability of fundamental rights in light of
EU law

7/87

63

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