Question juridique clé
Whether a permit can be requested directly against a merely negative declaratory decision on the sale of agricultural land.
Solution extraite
No. Against a purely negative declaratory decision under Art. 84 lit. b BGBB, only the declaration may be challenged; the court cannot itself grant the permit in place of the authority.
Motifs extraits
A declaratory ruling serves to determine whether the planned transaction is approvable. If the authority has only declared non-approvability, the applicant is not yet entitled to an actual permit decision. The permit may be claimed only after the contract is notarized in the form underlying the positive declaration. In that situation, the court must not create the right itself in the appeal judgment.