Entitlement to shareholdings in companies located outside the accession area under German property restitution law

The Federal Administrative Court granted the defendant's complaint for leave to appeal, ruling that the higher court appeal is admissible based on fundamental legal significance, thereby allowing the case to proceed to the full appellate court. The dispute concerns a claim for an entitlement to shareholdings in companies, specifically challenging whether such an entitlement can be established for entities that were located outside the area of accession at the time of the damage under German property restitution law. The decision relies on §§ 1(6) and 3(1) sentence 4 second half-sentence of the Property Reconstruction Act (VermG), determining that the question of the temporal and geographic scope of restitution rights regarding post-accession shareholdings requires clarification by the Federal Administrative Court.