Cabinet presented land reform continued program

At an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on June 11, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced 16 steps to proceed with land reform in Ukraine, AgroPolit.com reports.

Unlike the previous version of the program of the Cabinet, where the key tasks were presented on six slides, this time the Economy Ministry submitted a detailed schedule for the continuation of land reform. The program features 16 paragraphs:

1. The phased introduction of the agricultural land market with competitive rules on conditions that promote the development of agricultural production and rural areas.
2. Introduction of a system for monitoring land relations with public coverage of information on owners and users of land plots, prices for agricultural land in the context of administrative units.
3. Completion of the inventory of state-owned land.
4. Transfer to the State GeoCadastre of information on land plots, restrictions (encumbrances) in their use, registered before January 1, 2013, in the State Land Register.
5. Transfer of agricultural land plots of state ownership to communal ownership of territorial communities.
6. Introduction of a new unified method of normative monetary valuation (NMV) of lands located within the boundaries of territorial communities.
7. Deregulation of the procedure for approval of land management documentation and land valuation, the introduction of the mechanism for consolidation of agricultural lands.
8. Creation of an electronic register of land surveyors and granting them authority to carry out state registration of a land plot.
9. Ensuring the functioning of the national geoportal of geospatial data by developing and approving the Procedure for the functioning of the national geospatial data infrastructure.
10. Introduction of a transparent mechanism for the implementation of state and municipal land ownership rights at electronic auctions.
11. Defining mechanisms for returning self-forested agricultural land to a condition suitable for commercial agricultural production, restoring reclamation systems.
12. Creating legislative conditions for transferring land reclamation systems to agricultural producers and creating associations of water users.
13. Prevention of shadow land lease by introducing transparent, uniform taxation per hectare.
14. Delegation of separate functions of the state in the sphere of land use, control over land use and protection to local self-government bodies.
15. Provision of an effective mechanism for the use of land as a credit resource for economic entities in the agricultural sector.
16. Elimination of corrupt mechanisms of shadow land lease of state and municipal enterprises' land.

Earlier it was reported that the cost of Ukrainian agricultural land after the launch of the land market will be at most USD 2,000 per hectare.

Learn more: Ukraine's Land Market Bill Adopted: Key Provisions