Czech Republic: An Open Market Dominated by Large Owners

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54171/2022.jesz.aoalcbicec" target="_blank" >10.54171/2022.jesz.aoalcbicec</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Republic: An Open Market Dominated by Large Owners

Original language description

This chapter focuses on the acquisition of agricultural land in the Czech Republic. It aims to describe this topic in its historical and property law context since the privatization of agricultural land after 1989 still concerns its transfer from the state to private individuals. Furthermore, transfers of agricultural land were restricted on the basis of nationality until being gradually abolished after the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004. First, the chapter describes the Czech concept of agriculture and agricultural land and the general legal framework of both protection and transfer of agricultural land. Then, restrictions on the cross-border acquisition of agricultural land are analyzed in the context of land restitution and specific measures toward foreign investors. A separate subchapter is devoted to the application of the preemption right of the state. The last part introduces the general requirements on the transfer of agricultural land, with a particular focus on the evidence in the Real Estate Register. Additional requirements for the transfer of state-owned land are described with details on priority transfers of agricultural land, sales by public offer, and public tender. The authors conclude that, currently, the only major obstacle to the cross-border acquisition of agricultural land in the Czech Republic is the state’s preemption right, which applies only to selected land, particularly in protected natural areas. Transfers of state-owned agricultural land are governed by special rules, which, however, do not in principle restrict interested parties from other states within the EU or the European Economic Area. Neither do they distinguish between persons residing or established in the Czech Republic and in another member state, nor do they differentiate between the requirements for conducting agricultural activities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Acquisition of Agricultural Lands – Crossborder Issues from a Central European Perspective

ISBN

9786156474087

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

127-143

Number of pages of the book

374

Publisher name

Central European Academic Publishing

Place of publication

Miskolc – Budapest

UT code for WoS chapter

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