The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe dismissed the Left party’s complaint as inadmissible. The applicants lacked the necessary legal interest, the court announced. The party had not indicated to the respondents before initiating the proceedings that it saw its parliamentary rights violated.
The Left party had sought to prevent the new Building Modernization Act from being passed before the summer recess. It criticized the law for widening the gap in achieving climate targets and demanded information on climate impact and the availability of biogas. The emergency motion was intended to buy time to provide this information.
The black-red coalition plans to use the law to overturn key points of the former traffic-light coalition’s regulation. In addition to heat pumps, district heating, and biomass, new gas and oil heating systems are to be allowed, provided they use an increasing share of CO2-neutral fuels such as biomethane from 2029. For existing heating systems, a green gas quota is planned from 2028.
The lawsuit recalls a case from summer 2023, when the Federal Constitutional Court, at the request of CDU MP Thomas Heilmann, stopped the passage of the old heating law. On July 23 – three years after the successful emergency motion – the court will now rule on the main proceedings in Heilmann’s case. The issue concerns the question of a constitutional speed limit for the deliberation of draft legislation.
Source: www.tagesspiegel.de
