Automated legal default action (AGMV)
Automated litigation default actions were introduced in 1982 with the objective of making the costly and irksome manual processing of default matters more efficient and economical: all applications are processed by computer, thereby eliminating the time-consuming filling-in of forms and multiple carbon copies. The quality of data processing was also improved: electronic plausibility checks reduce the error ratio. Processing time in court is also reduced, since applications submitted on data carriers can be processed on the day they are received.
Applications for automated litigation default action are submitted either in paper form on special printed forms that can be scanned or on electronic data carriers such as disks or magnetic tapes or cassettes. Coding and signatures also enable application via remote data transmission. Automated litigation default actions are now used at central dunning courts in all the German federal states. The only exception is Thuringia, where non-automatically (manually) readable applications are still processed at the court with jurisdiction over the applicant’s domicile.