Administrative appeals in Germany

Abstract

Speaking about administrative appeal in Germany means, above all, speaking about the so called objection procedure, which is foreseen as a prerequisite for specific kinds of court action before the administrative courts, the fiscal courts and the social courts. The effectiveness of this objection procedure is highly disputed and several experiments have been conducted on the level of the Länder in this regard. Additionally, another form of administrative appeal exists for public procurement matters, whereas the institution of an ombudsman is unfamiliar to German law.