Key legal question
Whether an administrative appeal may be filed electronically in proceedings before the Verwaltungsgericht.
Extracted holding
No. The statutory rules on filing form are exhaustive and allow only written filing by post or in person; electronic filing was not permitted because no implementing regulation existed.
Extracted reasoning
§§ 9(2) and 68(1) VRG require timely written filing. § 58(1) VRG does not open the door to electronic filing by analogy. Under § 116 GO, electronic legal traffic depends on a special ordinance, which had not yet been enacted.