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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

AWACS I (Ger)

Germany [de]

Katja S Ziegler

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
April 2019

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
War — Military forces — Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Constitutional courts/supreme courts

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. The AWACS I (1994) (Ger) (also known as Armed Forces judgment) of the German Federal Constitutional Court (‘FCC’) of 12 July 1994 was the result of a parliamentary challenge to the German Government’s decisions to deploy armed forces in three military missions to conflict zones beyond the NATO area. The first such mission concerned a maritime operation of NATO/WEU in 1992 to implement the embargo against the (then) Federal Republic of Yugoslavia imposed by UNSC Res 713 (1991) ‘Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’ (25 September 1991). The second deployment...
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