The purpose of this Law is to provide for the protection and management of coast, shore and bank areas. Protection and management shall be based on principles of sustainable development and preservation of biological diversity (art. 1). Article 2 defines coasts, shores and banks as land areas…

These amendments concern the sale of land (sect. 17), and the partial or complete repayment of subsidies. The section on the sale of land refers to section 44 of the Rural Activities Management Act.
Amends: Reindeer Management Act (No. 161 of 1990). (1990-02-09)

A Decree of the Department of the Environment to protect the environment from pollution from tanks for the storage of oil which are lying underground. The provisions of the Decree deal, inter alia, with: quality of tanks (sect. 4); control of tanks in general (sect. 5); periodical controls (sect…

This Act governs the implementation of the 1993 Law of Property Act stating that the latter entered into force on 1 December 1993 and that it applies only to legal relations created before that date. It also lists repealed legislation in art. 25 (parts of the Civil Code of the Estonian SSR,…

This Law provides for the return to former owners or their legal successors, the distribution to workers or ex-workers of collective farms, and compensation of, nationalised property in agriculture and for the reorganization or liquidation of collective farms. Agricultural reform shall be…

The scope of this Act is to improve the living standards and the opportunity of earning of reindeer breeders. The Act provides them with the possibility to acquire or to exchange lands which may be used for the purposes indicated in Act 590/69 and in the Act relative to Agricultural Production…

This Regulation implements parts of the Reindeer Management Act whose scope is to improve the living standards and the opportunity of earning of reindeer breeders. Chapter 2 concerns the acquisition of land and the use of acquired land in accordance with the Disposition Plan and directions of…

The scope of the Act is to improve the living standards and opportunity of earning of those involved in agriculture, forestry, fishery and aquaculture, hunting, reindeer breeding and other nature-based activities in the Northern districts of Finland. This Regulation prescribes further conditions…

This Act provides rules relative to the expropriation of real property by the State and local authorities.The Act consists of 34 sections divided into 8 Chapters: What can be expropriated and for what purposes. Measures and interventions relating to expropriation (I); Procedure (II); Valuation…

The Act makes provision for the expropriation of private land for public purposes. It consists of 59 sections which are divided into 2 Chapters: Appraisal (I); Procedures relative to expropriation (II).Chapter I provides for the appraisal of real property either by judicial decision or by the…

The provisions of this Decree of the Ministry of Environment apply to all activities which comport a change in the natural environment or the landscape including drilling for oil and industrial activities. As a rule, plans for such activities shall be submitted for approval to Department at…

The scope of the present Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture is to provide a clear picture of all land suitable for cultivation but presently not in use. Such land shall be under consideration for measures to be taken pursuant to section 8 of the Land Use Act of 1995. Municipalities shall be…