Verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken gegen die RHG Novelle 2009

Im Jahre 2009 wurde durch eine ?nderung des B-VG und des RHG die Kompetenz des RH zur Prüfung privatwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen auf Betriebe, welche durch den Bund „tats?chlich beherrscht“ werden, ausgeweitet. Der folgende Beitrag m?chte zeigen, dass es nicht m?glich ist, diesen neuen Tatbestand ausreichend abzugrenzen. Somit handelt es sich um einen unbestimmten Gesetzesbegriff, welcher Tatbestandsmerkmal einer Kompetenznorm ist. Dies stellt nach der hier vertretenen Ansicht einen Versto? des § 12 (1) RHG gegen Art 18 Abs 1 B-VG dar.     

Michel Crozier and the study of complex bureaucratic organizations: Towards the development of French strategic analysis

Un système bureaucmtique d'organisation n'est pas seulement un système qui ne se corrige pas en fonction de ses erreurs, mais c'est aussi un système trop rigide pour s'adapter sans crise aux transformations que I'évolution accélérée des sociétes industrielles rend de plus en plus fréquemment impératives.*     

The Impact of European Integration on Private Law: Reductionist Perceptions, True Conflicts and a New Constitutional Perspective

If private law is defined simply as a matter of core areas such as substantive contract, torts, property or family law, it may be doubted whether European law has significantly affected national private law systems; or conversely, whether national private law is relevant to European integration. However, this paper argues that such conclusions are misleading: while there have been very few European interventions into the core areas of civil codes or the common law, the integration process has impacted forcefully upon deeper structures of national legal systems. Challenging the institutional embeddedness of national private law, European primary and regulatory law has remodelled (public) concepts of private autonomy, the realm of private governance and the social responsibility of private actors. How then to present and evaluate this indirect impact? Drawing upon concrete examples, this paper seeks first to understand this European challenge to the interdependence of national private law, borrowing from political science's analytical tool of multi-level governance to highlight the complex interrelations between European rights and regulatory law and national private law; and secondly attempts actively to assess the legitimacy of the impact of integration upon private law with the aid of the explicitly normative theory of deliberative supranationalism. However, precisely because Europe remains in a state of flux, and dependent upon contingent political processes, no final conclusions are drawn: as is the case with so many areas subject to integrationist logic, the contours of the ‘new European private law’ cannot be laid down in advance, and are instead a long and weary matter of cooperation and fine-tuning between national and European judiciaries.     

An unusual case of suicidal carbon monoxide poisoning

A 35 years old student with prior suicidal tendencies was found dead laying enclosed in a plastic-bag together with four plastic-bags of minor capacity. Three bags were opened by cuts and empty, one bag contained 73 1 of 83.2 Vol.% carbon monoxide. Postmortem carboxyhemoglobin concentrations in blood of five different regions of the corpse ranged from 80.3% to 93.4%. From the circumstances--chemicals and apparatus--it could be reconstructed that carbon monoxide was produced by the reactions of formic acid and sulfuric acid.     

Determination of ABO blood group markers in single hair segments

Determination of ABO-blood group on human hair segments of 79 individuals was performed by means of modified Yada absorption-elutions technique. The studies were carried out with 4 micron thin cross sections of hair. In 79% of the cases it was possible to establish the correct blood group. Individual hair segments of 0.5 cm length yielded reliable results. Antigen identification was best with blood group B and most difficult of the AB type.