Romanian procedural and administrative particularities of the sale of lands to foreign persons

Abstract

This study aims to examine the particularities of the procedures and legal instruments through which foreign persons, in the broadest sense of this term, may acquire, especially through sale-purchase contracts, agricultural lands situated outside of the built-up area, after Romania joined the European Union (1st of January, 2007). Likewise, this paper analyses specific international private law problems that may arise in relation with the application of the Romanian law regarding the legal transfer of agricultural and non-agricultural lands.

Keywords

• sale
• land outside of the built-up area
• foreigners
• residents
• member States
• third States
• pre-emption right