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Regional Law No. 7-OZ “On ensuring fertility of agricultural land”.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Territorial subdivision
Voronezh
Document type
Legislation
Date
2010 (2020)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil
Keyword
Agricultural land Soil conservation/soil improvement Soil pollution/quality Pesticides Fertilizers/nutrients Drainage/land reclamation Erosion Access-to-information Financing
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Regional Law enters into force ten days after the date of its official publication.
Abstract

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to ensure fertility of agricultural land by owners, landlords, land tenants and leaseholders. This Regional Law shall not be applicable to land plots allotted to citizens for personal subsidiary farming, gardening, horticulture and animal husbandry. The main arrangements for ensuring soil fertility shall be: (a) elaboration and realization of regional programs; (b) soil, agrochemical, phytosanitary, ecological and toxicological inspection; (c) investments in soil conservation and reproduction; and (d) improvement of soil quality and fertility. Owners, tenants and leaseholders of agricultural land must: (a) prevent soil pollution, littering and degradation; (b) carry out agricultural production by methods ensuring reproduction of soil fertility and preventing negative environmental impact; (c) inform authorized institutions of soil pollution and degradation of agricultural land; and (d) not apply ecologically hazardous fertilizers, ameliorators and pesticides.Possessors, owners, users, including tenants, of land plots shall have the right to perform agro-technical, agrochemical, land reclamation, phytosanitary and anti-erosion reproductive measures for restoration of agricultural land fertility; receive information from executive bodies of the regional authorities in accordance with the established procedure related to the state of soil fertility on their land and the dynamics of its condition.

Full text
Russian
Website
7law.info

References - Legislation

Amended by

Regional Law No. 131-OZ amending Regional Law No. 7-OZ “On ensuring fertility of agricultural land”.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 2017

Keyword: Agricultural land, Soil conservation/soil improvement

Source: FAO, FAOLEX