The paper contains deliberations on the origin of the statutory right of the Agricultural Property Agency to re-purchase property arising from Art.29 para. 5 of the Act on management of agricultural property owned by the State Treasury and a conclusion that there is not much room for that right within the scope of the primary and fundamental tasks assigned to the Agency. Further on, a comparison is made between the right to re-purchase property and the concept of expropriation. The result of this exercise shows that the said right to repurchase constitutes a much more burdensome intervention and a greater limitation of the ownership, than it is in the case of expropriation. The analysis of Art. 31 para. 3, Art. 21 para. 2 and art. ...