Law No. 600-I on agricultural cooperative (shirkat).

Subject

Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil

Keyword

Cooperative/producer organization Agricultural commodities Basic legislation Land reform Land tenure

Geographical area

Aral Sea, Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia

Entry into force notes

The Law enters into force on the date of its official publication.

Abstract

This Law sets forth legal grounds for setting up, functioning, reorganization and liquidation of agricultural cooperatives (shirkats), regulates the rights and the duties thereof, and also the interrelations with other legal and natural persons. The Act consists of seven Chapters divided into 33 Articles: (1) general provisions; (2) membership; (3) managing body of agricultural cooperative (shirkat); (4) allotment of land to agricultural cooperative (shirkat), landownership, land use and water use; (5) property of agricultural cooperative (shirkat); (6) functional basis of agricultural cooperative (shirkat); and (7) final provisions. The activity performed by agricultural cooperative (shirkat) shall be based upon the following principles: (a) voluntary membership; (b) unimpeded withdrawal; (c) compulsory labour activity; (d) household (collective) labour organization; (e) equal decision-making rights; and (f) purposeful use of land, soil protection and soil fertility improvement. The main activity of agricultural cooperative (shirkat) shall be the production of agricultural commodities and also processing of agricultural raw materials and manufacturing of foodstuffs. Agricultural cooperatives (shirkats) shall be allotted plots of agricultural land on condition of open-ended land use that can be transferred in life-long hereditary possession but cannot be objects of purchase and sale, mortgage, donation or exchange.

Full text

Russian

Website

zakonuz.narod.ru

References - Legislation

Amended by

Law No. ZRU-240 amending some laws.

Legislation | Uzbekistan | 2009

Keyword: Agricultural land, Farming, Agricultural development, Surface water, Groundwater, Water users' associations

Source: FAO, FAOLEX