From 23 to 25 of April 2025, Didier-Roland Tabuteau, Vice-President of the Council of State, welcomed a delegation from the German Federal Administrative Court (the Bundesverwaltungsgericht) *, led by its President, Andreas Korbmacher, for a working seminar regarding several topics that interest both institutions.
This event follows their last meeting that took place at the Bundesverwaltungsgericht, in Leipzig in May 2023. It is part of their long-standing tradition of cooperation, as these biennial seminars lead to particularly important discussions regarding several topics that interest both German and French administrative justice.
During this seminar, four round tables were organized around the following subjects:
- Water resource management in an agricultural environment
- Does the possibility for administrative judges to issue injunctions to the administration run the risk of turning them into administrators?
- The communication function at the Council of State and of the Bundesverwaltungsgericht
- The judge’s control over administrative dissolutions of associations or de facto groupings.
*Established in 1953, the German Federal Administrative Court (the Bundesverwaltungsgericht), the highest court of administrative law, is a judge of law and not of fact. It does not have any advisory powers. It has final jurisdiction over decisions handed down by regional administrative courts, thus ensuring that administrative law is applied consistently at the federal level.
