Austrian courts assign the substantive final AMAS assessment to counsellors and reject classification of the process as solely automated; this legal finding does not establish effective discretion in practice.

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Claim LD05-HQ-C14 (v1.0)

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Austrian courts assign the substantive final AMAS assessment to counsellors and reject classification of the process as solely automated; this legal finding does not establish effective discretion in practice.

Provenance and status

Claim type: Fact and Interpretation
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: legal empirical distinction
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Empirical claim about actual override/deference rates
Limitations: Legal record, not field study of daily practice
Source (as cited): BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history
Source type: Legal text (recorded as “Legal primary”)
Institutional position: Court
Maturity of the evidence: Rapidly maturing evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is not the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

Sources this version cites

BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history (Legal text)
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Version

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NEWER VERSION EXISTS: read the current version, v1.1 (LD05-HQ-C14--v1.1). This version is explicitly superseded by LD05-HQ-C14--v1.1.

Versions: v1.0, v1.1 · current

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All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.

Claim type (coded): FACT + INTERPRETATION (as printed: “FACT + INTERPRETATION”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (LEGAL_EMPIRICAL_DISTINCTION) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL/EMPIRICAL QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): LEGAL_PRIMARY
Maturity (coded): RAPIDLY_MATURING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD05-HQ-C14	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Austrian courts assign the substantive final AMAS assessment to counsellors and reject classification of the process as solely automated; this legal finding does not establish effective discretion in practice.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT + INTERPRETATION	base_types: FACT, INTERPRETATION
4	RESEARCH STRAND	G/B	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history	source_ids: SRC-R04-AMAS-LEGAL-RECORD-2025
7	SOURCE TYPE	Legal primary	classes: LEGAL_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Court	—
9	SCOPE	Austria public employment service	—
10	DESIGN	Legal adjudication	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	AMAS rules, internal controls, case record	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	AMAS	—
13	COMPARATOR	Solely automated decision vs human-assisted decision	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Counsellors legally retain final assessment; Article 22 solely-automated classification rejected	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Legal attribution of decision	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Empirical claim about actual override/deference rates	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Legal record, not field study of daily practice	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Earlier critical/qualitative literature raises implementation concerns but does not overturn legal estimand	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	Austria/German	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Distributional effects not established by this legal holding	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D6.3, R-2	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Later court ruling or field evidence changing effective-discretion assessment	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL/EMPIRICAL QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: LEGAL_EMPIRICAL_DISTINCTION
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D5 (DOMAIN); D6.3 (SUB_AREA); R-2 (LENS)

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Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history” → BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG… (SRC-R04-AMAS-LEGAL-RECORD-2025--v1.0) — BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history; class LEGAL_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). Austrian courts assign the substantive final AMAS assessment to counsellors and reject classification of the process as solely automated; this legal finding does not establish effective discretion in practice [Claim LD05-HQ-C14, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld05-hq-c14/v1.0/

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 491599f091cb059997280430d8fbd46d1894bf197ebaaf14c73a585ee0551b2d.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

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Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = false — basis: not current: superseded by LD05-HQ-C14--v1.1 (manifest supersedes relation)
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-R04-AMAS-LEGAL-RECORD-2025--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 14 — LD05-HQ-C14 cites "BVwG W256 2235360-1, decision 1 Sep 2025; prior VwGH/BVwG procedural history"; Central HQ ruling embedded in Issue (this issue), item 3; the citation is the whole verbatim frozen field-6 text of this ClaimVersion, equal to the composite Source's canonical label.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-R04-AMAS-LEGAL-RECORD-2025--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.