Upper Austria Farmland Requirement Law 1979. Country/Territory Austria Territorial subdivision Oberösterreich Document type Legislation Date 1979 (2013) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Land & soil Keyword Basic legislation Land tenure Land-use planning Land consolidation Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Offences/penalties Cooperative/producer organization Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Western Europe Abstract The present Law lays down provisions relating to conditions of farmland in Upper Austria. Article 1 deals with land consolidations. With a view to create and maintain an efficient and environment-friendly agriculture, property rights, rights of use and cultivation in rural life may be improved or newly arranged by means of : 1) new divisions and development of agricultural and forest land; 2) merging agricultural and forestry industries taking into account modern agricultural and ecological factors. The text consists of 105 articles divided into 3 Main Parts as follows: Merging and land clearing (I); Legal and economic conditions of agricultural land cooperatives (II); Proceedings, penalties and transitional and final provisions (III). Full text German Website www.ris.bka.gv.at