Restitution of land that was expropriated before 1989

The process initiated after 1989 of the return of land that was expropriated before 1989 has been still not completed in the Czech Republic. In 2016, a law was passed, which should from 01.07.2018 restrict the return only to monetary compensation and close it by 2028 completely. However, the Constitutional Court has repealed this law. The relevant legislation remains unchanged. The rule "return before compensation" has still to be applied unlimited.

The Constitutional Court has not declared the idea of cancelling of the restitution process to be in itself unconstitutional, but only its intended form, which, above all, violates the principle of equality. The Constitutional Court made a similar decision already in 2005.