Legal problems of legal regulation of the acquisition of agricultural land

Konkurencingai Lietuvos žemės ūkio veiklai Europos Sąjungoje tinkamus pagrindus turi suteikti ir tobula nacionalinės agrarinės teisės normų sistema. Straipsnyje apžvelgiama esama žemės teisinių santykių padėtis, žemės ūkio paskirties žemės įsigijimo nuosavybėn teisinės bazės būklė. Analizuojamos ir kritiškai vertinamos Žemės ūkio paskirties žemės įsigijimo laikinojo įstatymo normos, parodomi trūkumai ir jų sprendimo būdai.Article gives a general review on legal regulation of agricultural land in Lithuania. There are presented rules of agricultural legal relations and basic data of agricultural land legal regime in the article. A special emphasis is layed on analysis of legal reglamcntation regulations of the acquisition into ownership of land plots - which arc and important part of Lithuanian land fund. The article analyses a specific status of the land law - the main source of agricultural law. The land law is the key basic regulatory enactment, regulating land legal relations. The article also stresses the need of improving the constitution of rules of this law and preparing a new version of the law, which would be in compliance with the EU legislative provisions and would safeguard Lithuanian national interests. The main attention is given to analysis of the rules of the Provisional law on the acquisition of agricultural land. On the grounds of this analysis the evaluation of rules of the law is conducted: the evaluation aims to examine how the law observes requirements of the human inherent rights and freedoms and provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania. All the rules of the law are analysed in the view of legality and public necessity. Conclusions of the evaluation reveal that the rules of five articles of the law arc legally improper and arc not in compliance with the Constitution. The conclusions emphasize the meaning and importance of agricultural land - the biggest national asset - and propose legal regulation of land relations on a constant high legal level