In all the republics of the former Yugoslavia, including in the Republic of Serbia, property relations were highly dynamic, with the answer to the question of who held ownership rights frequently changing. In Serbia, among the last countries in the region, a systemic law regulating property restitution was only passed in 2011 – the Law on the Restitution of Confiscated Property and Compensation. This law, encompassing both substantive civil and procedural administrative law, introduces a special procedure for the return of confiscated property and compensation, in which, in certain areas, significant deviations from the general rules of administrative procedure are evident. This paper examines the specificities of the property restitution procedure as a special administrative procedure and highlights the key differences compared to the general administrative procedure.
