Key legal question
Whether the Federal Administrative Court correctly issued a non-entry decision for failure to file a requested power of attorney.
Extracted holding
Yes. The court was entitled to demand a written power of attorney and, after warning, to decline to hear the appeal when none was filed within the deadline.
Extracted reasoning
Under the VwVG, a party may be represented and can be required to prove authority by written power of attorney; if a deadline is set with a warning, only the warned consequence follows. The record showed no timely filing of the requested authorization.