Key legal question
Whether the Federal Institute had standing to file administrative law appeal against the remittal decision.
Extracted holding
The Institute lacked standing because it was not sufficiently autonomous under the applicable rules; its appeal could not be heard.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 28 VRSK applies only to autonomous federal establishments. Under the IGEG, the Institute is only organizationally and operationally independent, while substantively bound by federal law and instructions in sovereign matters.