26 September, Minsk /BELTA/. The procedure for granting land for the construction of roadside service facilities in Belarus will be simplified from January 1, 2012. President of Belarus signed Decree No. 431 "On Certain Measures to Improve Relations in the Field of Land Expropriation, Granting and Use" on September 23, BELTA was informed by the press service of the Head of State.
The decree is aimed at improving the regulation of relations in the field of land protection and use. It is intended to implement certain provisions of Directive No. 4 "On the Development of Entrepreneurial Initiative and Stimulation of Business Activity in the Republic of Belarus". This concerns the simplification of the procedure for granting land for the implementation of investment projects, as well as the adjustment of a number of regulatory legal acts governing land relations.
Thus, land plots for the construction and maintenance of roadside service facilities will be granted without auctions. At the same time, the competence for expropriating and granting plots for the construction of these facilities will be transferred from regional executive committees to district ones.
Citizens are granted the right to use land plots provided for the construction and (or) maintenance of a residential building, personal subsidiary farming, without changing their intended purpose, also for craft activities, provision of services in the field of agro-ecotourism, and other entrepreneurial activities.
Non-state legal entities are granted the right to acquire land plots in private ownership, previously granted for use for the maintenance of capital structures belonging to them, at a price equal to 70% of their cadastral value.
The decree also obliges local executive committees to put up for auction land plots for private ownership for the construction and maintenance of single-family and terraced residential buildings, at least 30% of the land plots included in the lists of vacant (unoccupied) land plots.
The document establishes various conditions for the provision of land plots for individual housing construction and the determination of the cost of such plots for different population categories. Thus, large families registered as in need of improved housing conditions will be provided with land plots in ownership free of charge. Other citizens who have been registered as such for a long time and do not own real estate will be able to acquire land in private ownership by paying 20% of the cadastral value or in lifelong inheritable possession.
In order to prevent possible cases of resale of land obtained on preferential terms, the decree introduces a restriction on the right of citizens who have received land plots as being in need of improved housing conditions to alienate such plots before the expiration of eight years from the date of state registration of residential houses built on them (with the exception of alienation to the local executive committee).
In accordance with the decree, the Council of Ministers is instructed to establish a unified procedure for accounting for citizens wishing to obtain land plots for the construction and maintenance of single-family and townhouses.
The decree enters into force on January 1, 2012.
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