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Decree-Law No. 349/91 regulating the granting to small farmers and cooperatives of ownership rights to land expropriated under agrarian reform.

Country/Territory
Portugal
Document type
Legislation
Date
1991
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Diário da República No. 216/91 (I-A), 19 September 1991, pp. 4945 and 4946.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil
Keyword
Smallholders/peasants Land tenure Land reform Transfer Ownership Agricultural land Cooperative/producer organization
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Southern Europe
Abstract

This Decree-Law seeks to reprivatize land expropriated in the areas subject to past agrarian reform and assigned to small farmers or cooperatives for cropping. With due regard to the agricultural land redistribution policy, the Decree-Law grants the same categories of beneficiaries full ownership of that land provided that they have farmed it effectively and rationally for a period of not less than 7 years from the date it was allocated to them. The owners shall be entitled to transfer their land 15 years after acquiring their deed of ownership and in so doing, shall abide by the rules prescribed in the Decree-Law. These rules determine the price of the transaction, the terms of payment, as well as the minimum size of plot that may be sold.

Full text
Portuguese