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so-called 'mienie zabużańskie' (property left beyond the Bug River)

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Note added at 46 mins (2024-02-04 00:11:58 GMT)
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The Act on the restitution of property left beyond the Bug river and European law

The Supreme Administrative Court will refer to the European Court of Justice a question for a preliminary ruling in the case of the Teisseyre family, heirs to a pre-war owner of assets in Lwow, a major city in then-eastern Poland. - https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/the-act-on-the-restitu...

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59. Until 1 January 2002, under the general provisions of the 1996 Act, repatriated persons could seek to obtain compensatory property through participating in such bids. They did not have any priority over other bidders. However, with the entry into force of the Law of 21 December 2001 on amendments to the Law on the organisation and work of the Cabinet and on the powers of ministers, to the Law on the branches of the executive and to other statutes (Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o organizacji i trybie pracy Rady Ministrów oraz o zakresie działania ministrów, ustawy o działach administracji rządowej oraz o zmianie niektórych ustaw – “the 2001 Amendment”), the situation changed. Since then, no property administered by the agency could be designated for the purposes of providing compensation for property abandoned beyond the Bug River. - https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-61828%22]}

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The purpose of the Act of 8 July 2005 on the exercise of the right to compensation for property left outside the present borders of the Republic of Poland is to settle real estate left in the provinces of the Second Polish Republic. - https://kwartalniknieruchomosci.ms.gov.pl/api/files/view/162...

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The Bug River property (Polish: Mienie zabużańskie, lit. property beyond the Bug River) is a property which was within the territory of interbellum Poland (Second Polish Republic) and was forcibly vacated by the evicted Polish landowners (Bug River Poles) after 1945 when the territory ceased to be inside Poland. The name refers to the Bug River because the Bug forms a major part of the new eastern boundary of Poland largely based on the Curzon Line, separating the so-called Eastern Borderlands from the rest of the current Polish territory. The Bug River land is today distributed between the states of Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine.[1] The claims for compensation for this sequestered land are known as the Bug River claims[1] (Polish: sprawy zabużańskie)