The Land Reform Act determines the bases for restructuring relations regarding land (land reform). Based on the continuity of rights of former owners and the interests of current land users that are protected by law, and to establish preconditions for more effective use of land, the objective of land reform is to transform relations based on state ownership of land into relations primarily based on private ownership of land.

The Law is divided into 8 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Ownership and Right to the Use Land (II); General Plans for the Utilization of Land (III); Protection of Cultivated Land (IV); Land for Construction Purposes (V); Supervision and Examination (VI); Legal Responsibilities (VII); Supplementary Provisions (VIII).This Law grants the ownership of land in rural and suburban areas to the collectives. Such land must be registered and recorded by the Governments at the county level. State-owned land may be used by units or by individuals and is recorded by local People's Governments.

An Act by the regional government of Burgenland on the protection of soil from harmful substances. In order to avoid harmful effects on human beings, animals and plants the aims of the said Act are as follows: the conservation and protection of soils and its functions, the improvement and restoration of the functions of soils and the prevention of soil erosion and soil compaction in general.

The purpose of the present Law is to safeguard the public interest on the occasion of the transfer of land or parts thereof, taking into account the need to comply with the principles of a sustainable protection of the environment, nature and landscape.

This Act lays down provisions on land arrangements and defines the competences of land authorities. Land arrangements aim at restructuring, consolidating or dividing lands in order to ensure the accessibility and rational exploitation of lands.

This Law establishes the modalities of calculation and terms and conditions of payment of single agricultural tax. Single agricultural tax shall be applicable to the producers of agricultural commodities and shall include immovable property tax and water charges. Agricultural producers shall be considered also owners or lessees of agricultural land. Agricultural land in ownership or on lease for the taxation period of one year shall be subject to application of single agricultural tax.

Amended by: Law No. 20-XV amending Law No. 238-XV on single agricultural tax. (2005-02-17)

This Law shall have as its purpose to set legal grounds for lease in agriculture, and to establish rights and duties of lessors and lessees. The Act consists of nine Sections divided into 29 articles: (1) general provisions; (2) right of lease; (3) rights and duties of the contracting parties; (4) lease fee and sublease of agricultural land; (5) use of rented agricultural property; (6) lease of public agricultural land; (7) lease of agricultural assets; (8) liability; and (9) conclusive and transitional provisions.

Article 3 shall be supplemented with a new wording: “land taxes for agricultural land shall be established in accordance with 2 reduced by factors specified in the Annex 5.” Part one on the Article 20 shall acquire a new wording: “The grounds for the calculation of land taxes shall be the state land deed, land certificate of provisional land tenancy, decision of the local self-government on the allotment of a plot of land or annual declaration submitted by the local land survey service to the taxation authority specifying allotment and quality of the allotted land.”

The amendments of the Rota Agricultural Homestead Act concern the designation of homestead areas by the Board of Public Lands. Designated lands shall be allotted to qualified persons for purposes of farming. Those persons shall have the right to acquire title upon the fulfilment of conditions prescribed in the principal Act.

Amends: Rota Agricultural Homestead Act of 1990 (P.L. 7-11). (1990-10-24)

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of allocation of parcels of public land to citizens free of charge for gardening, horticulture and stockbreeding, and establishes minimum and maximum land area of the aforesaid parcels. It establishes that regional resident – natural person that has never had nor has parcel of agricultural land in ownership for subsistence farming, gardening or horticulture, shall be granted the right to receive in ownership a land parcel for each of the aforesaid purposes once-only.

This Regional Law establishes plenary powers of regional state bodies and local government of municipal units in the sphere of turnover of agricultural land. Maximum land area of agricultural land that can be owned by a single natural or legal person shall not exceed 20 percent of total available land area on a given territory at the moment of concession or purchase of such plots of agricultural land. Minimum lease period of agricultural land shall be 11 months.

This Regional Law establishes maximum and minimum land area of the plots of public or municipal land allotted to citizens in ownership for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding, subsidiary smallholding and individual housing construction. Total land area of agricultural land that can be owned or held in tenancy or lease by citizens carrying out subsistence farming and subsidiary smallholding shall not exceed 10 hectares.