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Joint Regulation No. 1345 of the Ministry of Justice and No. 564 of the Central Bank on extending credit to farms secured by land lease rights.

Regulations
Russia
Uzbekistan
Asia
Central Asia

This Joint Regulation regulates commercial bank loans to farming enterprises secured by land lease rights. Credit shall be extended on condition of its recovery, security and intended use. Commercial banks shall extend credit on a contractual basis and shall have as collateral the rights to land leases. As such, the lease in question must have a term that extends at least five years beyond the loan repayment date.

Decree No. 2002-27 of the State Tax Committee validating the Regulation on the modalities for the calculation and payment of a single land tax by producers of agricultural commodities.

Regulations
Russia
Uzbekistan
Asia
Central Asia

This Decree requires producers of agricultural commodities to pay a single land tax in place of all other taxes (except import taxes). They shall continue to pay state dues and licensing fees. Forest management, fishing and hunting enterprises shall not be considered producers of agricultural commodities for the purposes of this Decree. Agricultural land allotted on condition of ownership, tenancy or lease shall be subject to taxation. Data on land area, location, soil quality and other characteristics shall be taken from the land cadastre.

Presidential Decree No. PP-255 on reforms to the horticulture, fruit growing and viticulture sectors.

Legislation
Russia
Uzbekistan
Asia
Central Asia

This Presidential Decree, for the purpose of reorganizing horticulture, fruit growing and viticulture cooperatives into farming enterprises, requires the reorganized cooperatives to: (a) preserve the existing specialization in the land lease agreement; and (b) be subject to liability to ensure the rational management of orchards, vineyards and water resources in accordance with limited water use contracts.

Ordinance on alpine farms (Alpine Management Ordinance).

Regulations
Switzerland
Europe
Western Europe

The purpose of the present Ordinance is to regulate the cultivation and management of alpine regions and the related existing rights of lease and preemption thereof. The kind and extension of the cultivation and management shall be carried out according to ecological principles. In such a way a sustainable development of agricultural land shall be guaranteed and a wide plant variety shall be promoted. Typical endemic plant societies shall be conserved.

Presidential Decree on deepening of economic reforms in the horticulture, fruit growing and viticulture sectors.

Legislation
Russia
Uzbekistan
Asia
Central Asia

This Presidential Decree, in order to improve the efficiency and quality of vegetable, fruit and grape processing and to increase their export, mandates that the procedure for creating reorganized farms on cultivated areas of horticulture, fruit growing or viticulture cooperatives shall be run by a special commissions through open tender. Preferential rights shall be granted to cooperative members who have worked on the land in question under household contracts.

Law of the People's Republic of China on the Contracting of Rural Land.

Legislation
China
Eastern Asia
Asia

This Law has been formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of stabilizing and perfecting the two-level operation system, which is based the responsibility system of contracting by households supplemented by unified management, entitling the peasants to a long-term and guaranteed right to the use of land, protecting the legal rights and interests of the parties of the contracting of rural land, so as to improve the development of agriculture and the rural economy and stabilize the rural areas.

Ordinance on agricultural lease.

Regulations
Switzerland
Europe
Western Europe

The present Ordinance regulates the implementation of the Federal Agricultural Lease Act of 4 October 1985. Article 2 names the Agricultural Centre of Ebenrain as competent authority in all related matters; article 3 deals with authorities entitled to file an appeal and the relevant proceedings; article 4 concerns legal protection; and article 7 fixes the entry into force.

Implements: Loi fédérale sur le bail à ferme agricole. (2014-01-01)

Sub-Decree No. 19 ANK/BK on Social Land Concessions.

Regulations
Cambodia
Asia
South-Eastern Asia

This Sub-Decree sets out criteria, procedures and mechanisms for the granting of private state land for social purposes to the poor who lack land for residential use and/or for family farming.The Sub-Decree sets out the necessary requirements for Local and National Social Land Concession Programs and defines the types of social concession land and occupancy conditions.The Sub-Decree further establishes a social land concession mechanism which shall be responsible for administering and implementing provisions of the Act and which have the following structure: National Social Land Concessions

Land Lease Contracts Act.

Legislation
Germany
Europe
Western Europe

Article 2 of the above/mentioned Act establishes that the lessor shall notify the conclusion of a lease contract without delay to to competent authority, as well as of any modification of such a contract.

Water Pollution Control (Code of Good Agricultural Practice) Order, 2007 (P.I. 263/2007).

Regulations
Cyprus
Western Asia

This Ordinance sets forth the updated version of the Code of Good Agricultural Practice. The creation of this Code comes along with the implementation of Council Directive 91/676/EEC on the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. The Code has the aim of promoting guidelines able to assist farmers to reduce water pollution caused by fertilizers from agricultural sources and to prevent further such pollution and to set the acceptable environmental conditions for the use of urban waste water for irrigation purposes.