The purpose of the deliberations presented in this paper is ‘confrontation’ of the past and the future of agricultural law. A look to the future through making references to the past experiences allows us to wrap up the whole area of study and then adopt another perspective: agricultural law between tradition and modernity. By doing so we also determine a new direction of the development of agricultural law, moving from traditional to modern agricultural law, where the latter is a reflection of today’s need for the legal regulations to become adapted to the changing social and economic environment and goals. This takes the form of a still increasing although already huge number of legislative acts covering yet newer areas of legislation whi...