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