Ukrainian Parliament adopts at first reading bill on privatization of land of state-owned agricultural enterprises
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted at first reading bill No. 3012-2, which proposes to establish the procedure for privatizing the lands of state-owned agricultural enterprises, institutions, organizations and to provide employees of such enterprises with the right to receive their land share.
The relevant bill on amending certain legislative acts regarding the ensuring the right of employees of state-owned agricultural enterprises, institutions, and organizations to receive land share was supported by 267 MPs.
The document provides that only lands of state-owned agricultural enterprises, institutions, organizations are subject to privatization. The norms are introduced according to which the privatization of land of agricultural enterprises can be carried out both in the process of privatization of the enterprises, and without a decision on their privatization, based on the decision of the authority to which the enterprise belongs, as well as during the liquidation of enterprises.
It is established that the privatization of the land of enterprises distributes their agricultural land. Almost 40% of the land is distributed between the employees of the enterprise and pensioners from among them, employees of state-owned and municipal institutions of the social sphere (in this case, the area of land that is transferred to the ownership of one employee of the enterprise or pensioner from among the former employees of the enterprises is determined by the average share size in the area, and for employees of social institutions cannot exceed two hectares).
However, up to 20% of the land is transferred into the ownership of combatants to conduct personal farming (in this case, the area of land that is transferred to the ownership of one person cannot exceed two hectares).
At least 40% is leased at land tenders (except in cases of privatization of land of enterprises in connection with the privatization of the enterprises themselves). In the case of privatization of the land of enterprises in connection with the privatization of the enterprises themselves, the land remaining after distribution between the employees of the enterprise, employees of state-owned and communal institutions of the social sphere and participants in hostilities, is leased for 50 years to the business society into which the enterprise is transformed.
The bill provides that nonagricultural land and nonagricultural land permanently used by the enterprise during its liquidation are transferred to the communal property of the territorial communities at their location.