The introduction of the land market was discussed with representatives of territorial communities of the Nizhyn district

In a week, the land market will start. This means that citizens will be able to sell their agricultural land plots. But these are not the only changes that have occurred in land legislation. In order to explain the changes to land legislation that have been made during this and last years, for representatives of territorial communities, the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, together with the Regional Center for the Provision of Land Use Rights in the Chernihiv region and representatives of the State Geocadastre in the Chernihiv region, a number of training events were held, the last of which was held on June 23 in the village of Stepovi Khutory, Nizhyn district.

Igor Puzan, Head of the Department of Land Management and Land Protection of the Main Department of the State Geocadastre in Chernihiv Region, was invited as an expert for this event.

Igor Puzan noted that in accordance with subparagraph 58 of paragraph 2 of Law 1423-IX, the right of redemption also belongs to citizens of Ukraine – heirs of citizens who had the right of permanent use, the right of lifelong inherited possession of land plots of state and municipal property intended for conducting peasant (farming) farming (except for cases when such land plots were transferred to the ownership or use of individuals or legal entities). If there are several such heirs, the land plot is acquired by them in joint partial ownership, where the shares of each of the heirs in the ownership are equal.

The rights of permanent use and lifelong hereditary possession of land plots of state and municipal property are retained by the subjects of the relevant right who have not redeemed such plots in accordance with the first paragraph of this paragraph”.

He also noted that according to the amendments, the right to use (lease, emphyteusis) of an agricultural land plot may be alienated or transferred as collateral by its user without the consent of the owner of such land plot, except in cases specified by law. Alienation, pledge of the right to use a land plot is carried out under a written agreement between its user and the person in whose favor the alienation is carried out or in whose favor the right to use is transferred as collateral. Such an agreement is the basis for state registration of the transfer of the right to use in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law”.

The event was organized by the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights together with the Regional Center for the Provision of Free Secondary Legal Aid in Chernihiv Oblast as part of the implementation of the project “Ensuring Human Rights and Strengthening Civic Participation in the Framework of Land Reform in Ukraine” with the support of the Human Rights House Foundation and the European Union.