Germany’s federal cabinet on May 27 approved the Seventh Act to amend the Administrative Court Ordinance and related laws. The reform aims to modernise the judiciary, making administrative courts more efficient, digital and resilient. Key changes include greater flexibility in deploying judges, allowing more cases to be decided by a single judge, and shortening the provisional judge restriction to six months. The new rules also expand electronic procedures: citizens can file an objection to an administrative act by email and authorities can justify immediate enforcement electronically. Judges will receive a financial advance for clearly unfounded claims, and the maximum bail for non‑compliant authorities will rise from €10,000 to €25,000, with proceeds directed to an unrelated public body. Similar procedural adjustments will be extended to labour, social and finance courts where applicable.
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