nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160128-130231 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160127s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160128-130231 doi eng 342 23 Sarmiento, Daniel Author aut Awakenings: the “Identity Control” decision by the German Constitutional Court Sarmiento, Daniel Verfassungsblog 2016-01-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The GCC has applied, for the first time, its “identity control” to a case fully covered by EU Law. In the end, it quashes the decision of the instance court but it states that EU and German law are perfectly in line with the solution it comes to. What is all the fuss about? Why has the GCC made an “identity control” when the Framework Decision solves the case anyway in the same terms? It seems as if the GCC is sending a message to Luxembourg. It is a harmless judgment on the facts, but a very important one on the symbolic side. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Identity Control Verfassungsgerichtsverbund Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/awakenings-the-identity-control-decision-by-the-german-constitutional-court/ raw object