7.  The applicant lives in Zaussenberg in Lower Austria. 8.  In 1983 agricultural land consolidation proceedings, involving the property of the applicant's mother, were instituted by the Lower Austria District Agricultural Authority. On 9 September 1983 the authority ordered the provisional transfer of compensatory parcels. 9.  On 7 October 1987 the District Agricultural Authority issued the consolidation scheme, against which the applicant's mother appealed. 10.  On 5 June 1991 the Supreme Land Reform Board partly allowed the appeal lodged by the applicant's mother and awarded her compensation. This decision was quashed by the Administrative Court on 19 September 1994. 11.  On 20 February 1995 the applicant filed a declaration that he wanted to pursue the proceedings as his mother's legal successor. 12.  After a new decision by the Supreme Land Reform Board, reassessing the compensation issue had been quashed by the Administrative Court on 29 October 1996 it gave a further decision on 7 May 1997 granting a higher amount of compensation. 13.  On 18 February 1999 the Administrative Court upheld this decision.