WEBER AND SARAVIA v. GERMANY DECISION 3 9. In the applicants’ submission, technological progress had made it possible to intercept telecommunications everywhere in the world and to collect personal data. Numerous telecommunications could be monitored, in the absence of any concrete suspicions, with the aid of catchwords which remained secret. Strategic monitoring could then be used in respect of individuals, preventing the press from carrying out effective investigations into sensitive areas covered by the Act. 10. The Federal Constitutional Court, having held a hearing, delivered its judgment on 14 July 1999 (running to 125 pages). It found that the constitutional complaint lodged by the second applicant was inadmissible. The court noted that a constitutional complaint could be lodged directly against a statute if the person concerned could not know whether there had actually been an implementing measure applying the statute to him or her. The complainant, however, had to substantiate sufficiently his or her argument that his or her fundamental rights were likely to be breached by measures taken on the basis of the impugned statute. 11. The Federal Constitutional Court noted that it was irrelevant that the applicants did not reside in Germany, because the impugned provisions were aimed at monitoring international telecommunications. However, it held that, unlike the first applicant, the second applicant had failed to substantiate sufficiently his claim that his rights under the Basic Law were likely to be interfered with by measures based on the impugned provisions of the amended G 10 Act. In the absence of any further details, the mere fact that he dealt with the first applicant’s telecommunications in her absence was not sufficient to demonstrate this. 12. Partly allowing the first applicant’s constitutional complaint, the Federal Constitutional Court held that certain provisions of the Fight Against Crime Act were incompatible or only partly compatible with the principles laid down in the Basic Law (see “Relevant domestic law and practice” below, paragraphs 18 et seq.). In particular, section 3(1), first and second sentence, point 5, section 3(3), (4), (5), first sentence, (7), first sentence, (8), second sentence, and section 9(2), third sentence, of the Act were found to be incompatible with Article 10, Article 5 or Article 19 § 4 of the Basic Law (see paragraphs 26 et seq. below). It fixed a deadline of 30 June 2001 for the legislature to bring the situation into line with the Constitution. 13. On 29 June 2001 a new version of the G 10 Act came into force (BGBl. I 2001, pp. 1254, 2298) and the G 10 Act in its version as amended by the Fight Against Crime Act of 28 October 1994 ceased to apply.