Cabinet Regulation No. 748 of 2014 on Transactions with Agricultural Land Country/Territory Latvia Document type Regulation Date 2014 (2015) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Land commission Land tenure Land-use planning Lease Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Classification/declassification Contract/agreement Agricultural land Land valuation Local government Private land Procedural matters Property rights Transfer Ownership Geographical area Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe Abstract The Regulation prescribes the criteria for determining the dominant land use category in transactions with agricultural land; the information to be included in the application for transactions with agricultural land and the documents to be appended thereto; the procedures by which an agricultural land lessee and the manager of the Latvian Land Fund must exercise their pre-emptive right; the procedures by which a local government committee must be funded and established, its composition, as well as the rights and obligations of the local government committee; the procedures by which a local government committee must examine applications for transactions with agricultural land and take a decision on consent to the acquisition of agricultural land into ownership or refusal to acquire agricultural land into ownership; the procedures by which the data necessary for taking of a decision must be obtained from other State information systems; the deadlines and procedures by which a lessee or lessor of the land must inform the local government regarding the agricultural land lease contracts entered into; the procedures, by which the manager of the Land Fund of Latvia performs transactions with immovable property, including lease, purchase, sell and change agricultural land; and the procedures for calculating revenue from agricultural production. Full text English Website www.likumi.lv References - Legislation Implements Law on Land Privatisation in Rural Areas (1992) Legislation | Latvia | 1992 (2014) Keyword: Private land, Public health, Transfer, Agricultural development, Agricultural land, Procedural matters Source: FAO, FAOLEX