Key legal question
Whether the administrative appeal was admissible under the former OG despite the new BGG entering into force on 1 January 2007
Extracted holding
The appeal had to be treated as a Verwaltungsgerichtsbeschwerde under the OG because the challenged decision predated the BGG.
Extracted reasoning
Transitional law applied; the decision was of 21 December 2006, so the former procedural regime governed.