More than half of the preliminary proceedings were discontinued by the Public Prosecution Office in 2006
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, the Public Prosecution Office at the regional courts and the local courts dealt with approximately 4.877.00 preliminary proceedings in 2006. After the continuous rise of the number of proceedings recorded in the last decade (1995: 4,204,000), the cases are moderately declining since 2004 (4,995,000).
In 1.19 Million proceedings of all 4.99 Million preliminary cases recorded in 2006 the Public Prosecution Office either brought a charge against the accused to the relevant court or applied for a panel order resp. applied for an accelerated/simplified proceeding when juveniles were involved.
