What should we expect from the land reform initiative

Within the framework of land reform, the total amount of land plots registered under preferential terms will now be predetermined. This new regulation will concern only a part of lands acquired through preferential terms but the legislative package envisages corresponding amendment, which will be initiated at the November 18 bureau sitting.

The draft law states that within the framework of sporadic and systematic registration, the total area of land registered on the basis of a certificate issued by the municipality and the total number of plots registered on the basis of Article 7 (9) of the law shall not exceed 1.25 ha. But the draft law distinguishes between this and the lands in the mountainous regions of the country where the limit for land acquired through preferential terms is doubled with the constraint being 5 ha.

Another dimension of the new land reform will concern the families who want to register lands under different members’ names. In the context of land reform, property registration can be made available on land owned by households and families that are recorded in the household registry but have not filled in their property information.

The bill stipulates that if there are archival records of the household in 1992-2007 and the individual administrative-legal act of the municipality confirms the actual ownership of the household on the land, the National Agency of Public Registry will be obliged to register the ownership of the household. For such cases, the draft law sets the maximum limit of the land actually occupied - 0.75 ha, which, according to the government, is the average of the land allocations for family farms based on the analysis of the housing books of different municipalities.

"District representative will be authorized to use the public registry for inconclusive and conclusive cases, to check the adjusted cadastral data of registered land and cadastral survey results of the land laid identity (except for the system of registration and if the registration documents of the land truly established N The actual location of the section)," reads the draft law.

The ongoing land registration reform has revealed that although some of the land is in actual possession / use by individuals and they do not have any adjacent land, due to deficiencies in the land allocation process in the 1990s, they do not have the relevant documentation. In order to effectively address this problem, such families will be able to easily register the land in their possession within the limit of the amount of time that was originally given to their neighboring families, to get the necessary documentation on time- suggest the project.