On March 24, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding the Creation of Conditions for Ensuring Food Security in Martial Law” dated March 19, 2022 No. 7178.

It provides for simplification in the process of acquiring the rights of use for agricultural land plots under martial law.

During martial law in Ukraine in the territories where martial law has been imposed:

1. Land leases are extended automatically for 1 year without entering information into the relevant registers.

2. The district military administrations are granted the right to lease for commercial agricultural production for a period of up to 1 year agricultural plots of state and communal property, as well as plots of land remaining in the collective ownership of collective agricultural enterprises, agricultural cooperatives, agricultural joint-stock companies, unallocated and unclaimed plots of land and land shares (shares). At the same time, the amount of rent cannot exceed 8% of the normative monetary value of land plots, and the average normative monetary value of a unit of arable land in the region will be used to determine the amount of rent.

3. Strict restrictions are established regarding the intended use of agricultural land plots by tenants to whom the plots will be provided by the district military administrations, including changes in the composition of land, transfer of plots to sublease, construction, changes in the purpose of the land plot, etc.

4. In order to quickly transfer land plots to the use of district military administrations, land lease contracts will be concluded only in electronic form, and the transfer of land plots for lease will take place without holding land auctions. Such a one-year land lease agreement cannot be renewed, concluded for a new term, and it will terminate upon the expiry of the term for which it was concluded.

5. Land lease contracts concluded by the military administration will be registered by the same administration in the Book of Registration of Lease Contracts, which is kept in paper and electronic form, and a copy of the land lease contract will be sent by e-mail to the village, settlement, city council, on the territory of which the land plot is located, as well as to the central executive body implementing state policy in the field of land relations.

At the same time, the right to lease land leased by the military administration will not be subject to state registration.

Source: www.buh.ligazakon.net