Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court)

Date: 02/26/2020

Subject: The decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Tribunal), also recalling the norms of the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, annulled section 217 of the Criminal Code, where it prohibited the support to assisted suicide, because in contrast with the right to a self-determined death, as expression of the more general right to the free development of the personality, according to article 2(1) of the Constitution; and the decision of 23.1.2020, on the agreement between Japan and the European Union

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Original language: German

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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