Facts
The Swiss citizen B., born in 1953 and residing in Croatia, registered with the IV Office for Insured Persons Residing Abroad (IVST) on 23 November 2004 to claim benefits and applied for a pension, among other things. By interim decision of 25 September 2012, the IVST ordered a multidisciplinary assessment of the insured person, with the assessment centre to be determined at a later date using the "SuisseMED@P" assignment system. B. appealed against this interim decision, which was dismissed by the Federal Administrative Court. B. then filed an appeal in public law matters with the Federal Supreme Court.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court did not enter into the appeal. It stated that an interim decision merely announcing the application of the "SuisseMED@P" assignment system to determine the assessment centre, without specifying a concrete assessment centre, is not appealable either at first instance or before the Federal Supreme Court. No irreparable disadvantage to…