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Taxation of agricultural and forest land: comparative perspective and practice in Serbia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Serbia
Forest Tenure
land tax
forest land
property
assessment
farmland
This paper discusses contradiction between theoretical preferences for using land as an object of taxation and modest revenues collected through property taxes imposed on agricultural and forest land. The paper starts with a summary of specificities of the land as an object of the property tax; then, classical economists’ preferences for the wide use of the land tax are confronted with the comparative research finding numerous examples of exemptions and favorable treatment enjoyed by agricultural and forest land.
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Land productivity and its prices in the countries of EU-15 and EU-12

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2017
Slovenia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Portugal, Poland, Latvia, Greece, Malta, Austria
land policies
farmland
land economics
research
The aim of article is assessment the impact of the affiliation of the country to the EU-15 or EU-12 on agricultural land productivity and its price. The tasks of article are evaluation of intensity in agriculture in the countries EU-15 and EU-12 and evaluation of differences in land productivity and its prices between EU-12 and EU-15 countries in years 2007−2013. The analysis showed that in the 2007−2013 period the EU-15 and EU-12 significantly differed in capital intensity.
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Law on construction land (Republic of Srpska).

Legislation
January, 2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Urban Tenure
land
public ownership
land-use planning
compensation
private ownership
urban areas
This Law regulates the conditions and methods for determining of the correct, safe, sustainable and controlled use and planning (spatial also) of the construction land (private and state-owned construction land), including the financial issues (as regards the territory of the Republic of Srpska, autonomous province part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).The Law is divided into VIII Chapters and 51 articles (for mechanisms and instruments for financing the construction of construction land see Chapter V).
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Law No. 31/2016 on the third amendment of Law No. 54/2005 establishing the title ownership of water resources.

Legislation
August, 2016
Portugal
public ownership
concession (land)
natural resources management
coastal areas
fisheries
water rights
land management
land ownership
This Law establishes the third amendment of Law No. 54/2005 regulating the title ownership of water resources. Amendments deal with the ownership of water resources and lay down the requirements to be satisfied in order to use such resources. In addition, it regulates the lake and fluvial public domain which belongs to the state or to the autonomous regions.
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Law on concessions of Sarajevo Canton.

Legislation
October, 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina
use rights
farmland
concession (land)
The Law defines the concept and all possible participants of what is determined as concession or concession contract (on the territory if the Canton of Sarajevo, part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), including its basic terms, its planning, preparation, granting and revocations rules; this Law further sets the competence of the Commission for concessions, various concession administrative procedures, and rights and obligations of all participants.As here defined, concession is the right to use natural wealth and goods under the terms and monitoring of the competent cantonal aut
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Regional Legislative Decree No. 25/2017/M adapting to the Autonomous Region of Madeira Law No. 54/2005 on the ownership of water resources.

Legislation
July, 2017
Portugal
public ownership
concession (land)
coastal areas
land registration
water rights
land management
land ownership
This Regional Legislative Decree, consisting of 18 articles, adapts Law No. 54/2005 on the ownership of water resources to the legislation of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. It regulates the following land ownership issues: Land near the crest of the cliffs reached or inserted in consolidated urban centres; Process of recognition of private property on public land parcels; Administrative easements on private plots of beds and public water banks; Areas threatened by the sea or floods, etc.

Implements: Law No. 54/2005 on the legal regime of water domain. (2005-11-15)
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The possibilities for recultivation of overgrown areas in Slovenia

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2011
Slovenia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land policies
farmland
land suitability
land use
land economics
agriculture
grazing
land improvement
Still, more agricultural land is getting abandoned in Slovenia, specially in less favored areas. Such process of degradation of fertile land is most intensively present in the Obalno-kraska region and Goriska. Similar happens with grassland in mountain region as less and less animals which are suitable for that region are bred there. To prevent brush encroachment and to start recultivation of aban
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Different approaches to the social vision of communal land management: the case of Galicia (Spain)

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2010
Spain
land policies
common lands
collective ownership
land economics
land management
private ownership
Communal forests, or Montes Veciñais en Man Común (MVMC), are a specific form of communal land tenure and a singular legal category in Galicia. The growing demographic decline in rural areas and, particularly, in inner areas of Galicia has led to a decrease in the economic interest of forest resources. The complexity of the different management modes or levels of organization of forest communities cannot be explained through a homogeneous interpretation.
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[Common grasslands and land policy]

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2005
Spain
common lands
land policies
land economics
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Farm land rent in the European Union

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2011
Slovenia, France, Estonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece, Malta, Finland, Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Netherlands, Ireland, Romania, Czech Republic
Land & Investments
land policies
farmland
land markets
land economics
Great share of rented land in total utilised area as well as a significant variability of land rent and market prices of land causes a need of research that would assess which factors influence the land rent as well as the price of land and how significant such factor are in each state. The average land rent is significantly lower in new EU member states than in the EU 15 members. There is a strong dependence of land rent on the intensity of production. Subsidies have moderate to medium influence.