Questão jurídica principal
Whether a criminal complaint is valid only if the peace-judge certificate is filed before expiry of the complaint period.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Under the amended § 79(2) StPO, the certificate that the conciliation attempt took place or was requested must be filed within the Article 29 StGB complaint period; later filing is insufficient.
Fundamentação extraída
The revision of 1990 removed the previous possibility of curing the omission after the complaint period. The wording and legislative history show that timeliness of the certificate is now a formal validity requirement.