Characteristic Features of Land Privatization in Ukraine

Abstract

"The reform of land relations in Ukraine that started in 1991 did not envisage change in the forms of property in land. The subject of land reform primarily was creation of various forms of activity on lands first of all due to organizing private farms and considerable expansion of private plots of population. Together with that the monopoly of state property on land remained but the functions of land use and rent of plots. The process of destatization of lands is provided for by adoption of Law on forms of property in land in January 1992 and land privatization according to the second edition of Land Code of Ukraine started in May 1992. The concept of privatization of land fund gives the idea that plots should be given as property strictly to proposed use on the basis of approved or calculated norms and mainly free of charge. The author tries to analyze the particularities of transfer of land into private property depending on purpose of use and arising practical problems of implementation adopted legal norms on these questions."