Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Commercialization of the Sunday

The Federal Constitutional Court of the commercialization of the Sunday rejected that. The Karlsruhe court ruled on Tuesday that the law violates the liberal Berlin shops open in parts of the Basic Law. The opening on all four Sundays was unconstitutional.

The nationwide liberal law regulating the opening hours stipulates that shops open in Berlin on ten Sundays or public holidays a year shall include on all four Sundays in the period from 13.00 bis 20.00 clock. By the Berlin House of Representatives adopted legislation is since 17 November 2006 in force. The Constitutional Court ruled that the respective seven-hole on all four Sundays, which is possible according to the Berlin law without conditions, the constitutionally required minimum level of protection falls Sunday. The Berlin scheme still remain to 31 December 2009, so the shops open on Sundays during Advent this year in Berlin is still possible.

The constitutional complaints of the Protestant and Catholic Church against the Berlin Act had therefore partially successful. The other provisions in Berlin Store opening act complained of is not the Constitutional Court.

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