ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY AGENCY IN PROCESS OF LANDPOLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

The study presents land policy on the background of the functioning of the Agricultural Property Agency. In the years1992-2015 the Agency realized the basic tasks resulting from the law on the restructuring of the state sector in agriculture.During that period, the land resources from Agricultural Property of the State Treasure in quantity of 4.7 million hectares,2.7 million hectares were transferred for sale (56.7%), 0.6 million hectares (13.7%) were committed in a lasting manner.The disposal of the Agency remains 1.4 million hectares (29.7%), including 1.0 million ha (21.6%) of land being in lease.In 2003, on the basis of the Act on shaping the agricultural system, Agency got the right of first state refusal, which wassuperior to the neighbor preemption. From 643.8 thous. agreements transferring ownership of agricultural property, theAgency submitted declarations of land acquisition in the 629 cases that concerned the area of 16.7 thous. ha. In 2016passed a 12-year protection period for the purchase of Polish agricultural land by foreigners. Therefore the new legalregulations were introduced in 2015, closing access to the purchase of land by foreigners.

Keywords

• land policy
• sale of land
• land lease
• shaping of farming system