The KPCC is a part of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA), and was ordered established by UNMIK Regulations 2006/10 and 2006/50. The KPA is an independent, administrative agency established pursuant to chapter 11 of the constitutional framework.

The KPCC has, subject to appeal to the Supreme Court of Kosovo exclusive jurisdiction to resolve disputes for private immovable property, including agricultural property and land which arises from the armed conflict between 27 Feb 1998 and 20 June 1999.

The KPCC was appointed on 14 May by the SRSG. Its members are:

Mr. Veijo Heiskanen (Finland) serves as chairman of the KPCC. Previously he was an international member of the Housing and Property Claims Commission in Kosovo.  He was a graduate of the University of Helsinki and Harvard Law School; he was conferred with his LL.M. in 1988 and S.J.D. in 1992.  He specialized in international law; commercial arbitration law, trade law and internet law.  Prior to his position with LALIVE Attorneys-at-Law in Geneva, he served as Secretary General and Senior Claims Judge of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (2001-2002); Director of the Institute of International Economic Law of the University of Helsinki (1998-2000); Deputy Chief of the Legal Service of the UN Compensation Commission (1994-1998); and Legal Advisor with the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in the Hague (1990-1994).  He lectured in various institutions, including at the University of Helsinki and the Hague Academy of International Law; has been a Visiting Scholar with the UN University in Tokyo (1999); he worked for the Arbitration Commission of the International Conference for the Former Yugoslavia (1993); and was also a member of the Steering Committee on International Mass Claims Processes at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is the author of numerous publications on international law; international arbitration and dispute settlements.

Mr. Norbert Wühler (Germany) is an international member of the KPCC. He graduated and received his doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg. He is currently Director of Reparation Programmes at the International Organization for Migration. His previous positions include Chief of the Legal Services Branch of the United Nations Compensation Commission (1992-2000), Legal Adviser to the President and Deputy Secretary-General of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1983-1991), research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (1978-1983) and attorney admitted to the bars of Heidelberg and Mannheim (1979-1983). He has been chairman, member and secretary of several international arbitral tribunals, has been an adviser to the Commission for Real Property Claims in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and is a member of the Steering Committee on Mass Claims Processes at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of an Expert Advisory Group on Victims Participation and Reparations at the International Criminal Court. He has taught and published on international property and compensation claims, dispute resolution, state responsibility and international arbitration.

Mr. Aqif Tuhina (Kosovo) is the local member of the KPCC. He previously served as the local member of the Housing and property Claims Commission. He graduated in law in 1964 from the University of Belgrade. Prior to his current practice as an attorney at law, he served as a Judge in Kosovo at both the Labour Court and the Supreme Court before Kosovo lost its autonomy in 1989. More recently he worked for the Kosovo Provincial Secretariat of Legislation and Administration and with UNMIK’s Department of Judicial Affairs.  He is a specialist in real property and criminal law.