Key legal question
Whether the Freiburg IV office was locally competent to issue the 31 July 2007 decision
Extracted holding
The claimant was correct that the Basel-Landschaft IV office remained competent at least until the pending objection against its pension decision was decided; the Freiburg decision was issued by a locally incompetent authority.
Extracted reasoning
However, decisions by a locally incompetent authority are generally voidable, not automatically void. The challenged decision concerned a recalculation already made by the competent compensation fund and did not determine the disputed invalidity degree anew, so the lower court did not have to annul it or reassess that degree.