Tatyana Gigel, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian Food Policy and Nature Management, announced the need to speed up the process of involving unclaimed agricultural land in circulation, reports Network edition "SenateInform".
On September 15, the Government submitted to the State Duma law Project, according to which, until January 1, 2025, a transitional period will be established for municipalities so that they can rent out no one's plots, after which unclaimed shares will become their property.
As its head Mikhail Mishustin explained earlier at a Cabinet meeting, land plots are unclaimed, the owner of which is unknown or has not disposed of them for three years or more. Many of these territories are not just abandoned, but not even properly designed. In a number of regions, in the last 30 years they have accounted for up to a quarter of the total land area.
The authorities have been working on solving the problem of unused agricultural land, the area of which is now estimated at more than 40 million hectares, for several years. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, by 2019, the municipalities were included in the lists of unclaimed 1,5 million shares with a total area of 15,3 million hectares. And if the very procedure for recognizing land as unclaimed is quite simple, then further recognition of municipal property on them remains a judicial problem, because the location of the defendant, as a rule, is unknown.
First Deputy Head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Irina Rukavishnikova stated that at the federal level it is necessary to develop rules for determining escheated and abandoned property, since now not all regions have regulations on these issues. In addition, the senator suggested create registers of ownerless property at the municipal level, since its acquisition in state or private ownership allows it to be involved in circulation and thus replenish the income of the municipal and regional budgets.